aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/m4/zz50-xc-ovr.m4
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>2019-11-20 18:44:18 -0500
committerJay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>2019-11-22 22:29:39 -0500
commit78cef068479d85f7af29b5ddf21ced5288a50f37 (patch)
tree68b0792d9038955f331c33e3cfbd86e16f7a49c8 /m4/zz50-xc-ovr.m4
parent1f4e7dc6613882d859cd805e83604eb1d29c9ff7 (diff)
openssl: Revert to less sensitivity for SYSCALL errors
- Disable the extra sensitivity except in debug builds (--enable-debug). - Improve SYSCALL error message logic in ossl_send and ossl_recv so that "No error" / "Success" socket error text isn't shown on SYSCALL error. Prior to this change 0ab38f5 (precedes 7.67.0) increased the sensitivity of OpenSSL's SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL error so that abrupt server closures were also considered errors. For example, a server that does not send a known protocol termination point (eg HTTP content length or chunked encoding) _and_ does not send a TLS termination point (close_notify alert) would cause an error if it closed the connection. To be clear that behavior made it into release build 7.67.0 unintentionally. Several users have reported it as an issue. Ultimately the idea is a good one, since it can help prevent against a truncation attack. Other SSL backends may already behave similarly (such as Windows native OS SSL Schannel). However much more of our user base is using OpenSSL and there is a mass of legacy users in that space, so I think that behavior should be partially reverted and then rolled out slowly. This commit changes the behavior so that the increased sensitivity is disabled in all curl builds except curl debug builds (DEBUGBUILD). If after a period of time there are no major issues then it can be enabled in dev and release builds with the newest OpenSSL (1.1.1+), since users using the newest OpenSSL are the least likely to have legacy problems. Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4409#issuecomment-555955794 Reported-by: Bjoern Franke Fixes https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4624 Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/4623
Diffstat (limited to 'm4/zz50-xc-ovr.m4')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions