Bug 460305

Summary: libnss-compat-ossl causes crashes when using ldap (symbol conflict with real openssl)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Hans de Goede <hdegoede>
Component: nss_compat_osslAssignee: Orphan Owner <extras-orphan>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Hans de Goede 2008-08-27 14:04:32 UTC
The story starts with bug 446860:

This is a bug against gkrellm which crashes when used on systems that use ldap and thus have nss_ldap configured in /etc/nssswitch.conf

The problem basicly goes like this:
-gkrellm is started
-gkrellm is linked against gnutls-openssl, which provides symbols also
 found in openssl for easy porting of openssl applications to gnutls
 (but with a different ABI!)
-gkrellm does something which causes glibc to load ldap_nss, which is build
 against the real openssl, however ldap_nss's openssl symbols get resolved against
 gnutls-openssl
-ldap_nss dives into some path causing it to call openssl functions, but ends
 up in gnutls code, which has a completely different ABI -> boom

I know sofar this is only about gnutls's openldap compatibility, not about
libnss-compat-ossl, but while at I've checked libnss-compat-ossl, and it has the same issue (reusing symbols from openssl for the easy porting of openssl apps).

Proposed solution: rename the openssl compatibility function to unique names for example foo to nss_foo, and use #define's in the openssl compat header to make programs compiled against libnss-compat-ossl use the libnss-compat-ossl symbols.

Up until now there seems to be only one user of libnss-compat-ossl in the Fedora repositories, so this would be a good moment for this change, before libnss-compat-ossl becomes widely used.

Comment 1 Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2008-09-09 19:31:48 UTC
Rob suggested to change the bug component to nss_compat_ossl

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 02:52:14 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 4 Rob Crittenden 2009-11-18 14:14:57 UTC
Changing version, this is still an issue.

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2010-03-15 12:04:03 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 13 development cycle.
Changing version to '13'.

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Comment 7 Hans de Goede 2011-06-03 08:32:06 UTC
Bumping version again, as this is still an issue AFAIK.

Comment 8 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-08-24 18:22:40 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 9 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 19:55:06 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

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Comment 10 Hans de Goede 2013-05-07 10:54:27 UTC
Ping? Given that:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCryptoConsolidation

Actually advises the use of nss_compat_ossl under some circumstances, and that this is a rather serious bug, this really ought to be fixed!

A possible (likely the only possible) solution would be to prefix all the functions with ie nss_compat_, so SSL_library_init would become nss_compat_SSL_library_init, etc.

And then add the following to nss_compat_ossl.h to allow apps building against it to use the old names:
#define SSL_library_init nss_compat_SSL_library_init
etc.

Comment 11 Rich Megginson 2013-05-09 17:46:45 UTC
Is this still a problem now that openldap is built against NSS instead of openssl on RHEL6 and later, and in Fedora?

Comment 12 Hans de Goede 2013-05-09 18:48:26 UTC
Hi,

(In reply to comment #11)
> Is this still a problem now that openldap is built against NSS instead of
> openssl on RHEL6 and later, and in Fedora?

That probably fixes the specific case which lead to the filing of this bug report, but the generic problem of symbol collisions remains.

If an app drags in 2 libs one linked against libnss-compat-ossl and one against the real openssl, things will go wrong eventually, so yes this is still a problem.

Regards,

Hans

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Comment 16 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2015-05-26 15:33:03 UTC
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Comment 17 Jan Kurik 2015-07-15 15:22:46 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
Changing version to '23'.

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