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Bug #1678

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uninitialized value in ossl_x509store_initialize causes occasional segfault

Added by peterp (Peter Pawlowski) over 15 years ago. Updated over 13 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Target version:
ruby -v:
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [x86_64-linux]
Backport:
[ruby-core:23971]

Description

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I am seeing segfaults when attempting to run gem to install something on my build of Ruby 1.8.7 on a 64-bit linux machine.

When I use valgrind to try to figure out where it's failing, I see this suspicious output:

==19613== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==19613== at 0x60E5059: CRYPTO_set_ex_data (ex_data.c:597)
==19613== by 0x5E16F25: X509_STORE_set_ex_data (openssl_missing.c:42)
==19613== by 0x5E1C256: ossl_x509store_set_vfy_cb (ossl_x509store.c:115)
==19613== by 0x5E1C2DC: ossl_x509store_initialize (ossl_x509store.c:135)
==19613== by 0x4A48C79: call_cfunc (eval.c:5749)
==19613== by 0x4A47F7B: rb_call0 (eval.c:5904)
==19613== by 0x4A49714: rb_call (eval.c:6151)
==19613== by 0x4A49CEE: rb_funcall2 (eval.c:6287)
==19613== by 0x4A4CFA3: rb_obj_call_init (eval.c:7770)
==19613== by 0x4A7C991: rb_class_new_instance (object.c:1644)
==19613== by 0x4A48C79: call_cfunc (eval.c:5749)
==19613== by 0x4A47F7B: rb_call0 (eval.c:5904)

This should be easy to reproduce by just running gem install --local , which is how I am seeing the problem.

The problem appears to be that the GetX509Store macro is not initializing store->ex_data.sk for some reason.

I'm able to eliminate the problem by adding this line of code to the ossl_x509store_initialize function in ext/openssl/ossl_x509store.c, after the call to GetX509Store:

 store->ex_data.sk = NULL;

but I'm sure that this isn't the proper way to solve the problem. I tried to figure out why this is happening, but I don't understand the code well enough to make a suggestion, or a real patch.

I hope this is all the information you need, please let me know if there's anything else I can supply to help figure this out.
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Related issues 2 (0 open2 closed)

Related to Backport187 - Feature #405: ssl.rb:31: [BUG] Bus ErrorClosedmatz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)Actions
Related to Ruby master - Bug #1142: /opt/ruby19/lib/ruby19/1.9.1/openssl/ssl.rb:31: [BUG] Bus ErrorRejectedmame (Yusuke Endoh)02/12/2009Actions
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Updated by peterp (Peter Pawlowski) over 15 years ago

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Ah, searching through the other issues, it looks like this is a duplicate of bug #405. Hopefully my additional information here is useful. This seems like a pretty serious problem.
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Updated by yugui (Yuki Sonoda) over 15 years ago

  • Category set to ext
  • Status changed from Open to Assigned
  • Assignee set to gotoyuzo (GOTOU Yuuzou)
  • Priority changed from Normal to 6
  • Target version set to 1.9.2

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Updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh) almost 15 years ago

  • Status changed from Assigned to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

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This issue was solved with changeset r27064.
Peter, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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