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The same issue on rhel-7.

libreswan-3.15-5.el7_1.x86_64

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1313816 +++

Description of problem:

Pluto crashes with --ctlbase option. It appears only on x86_64.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

mostly, but not 100%

Steps to Reproduce:

# yum install -y libreswan

# rm -rf /etc/ipsec.d/*.db /etc/ipsec.d/pkcs11.txt

# mkdir /tmp/pluto

# ipsec initnss
Initializing NSS database
See 'man pluto' if you want to protect the NSS database with a password

# ipsec pluto --ctlbase /tmp/pluto

# dmesg | grep pluto | grep segfault
pluto[11944]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f79c6069d36 sp 00007fff2379fdf0 error 4 in pluto[7f79c6002000+10a000]

Actual results:

Pluto crashes.

Expected results:

Pluto does not crash.

Additional info:

This is fixed in 3.23. pluto no longer crashes and shuts down cleanly because there is no valid nss db in /tmp/pluto. The logs show:

Pluto initialized
Feb  8 10:41:42.466182: FIPS Product: NO
Feb  8 10:41:42.466342: FIPS Kernel: NO
Feb  8 10:41:42.466445: FIPS Mode: NO
Feb  8 10:41:42.466551: NSS DB directory: sql:/etc/ipsec.d
Feb  8 10:41:42.466782: Initializing NSS
Feb  8 10:41:42.466871: Opening NSS database "sql:/etc/ipsec.d" read-only
Feb  8 10:41:42.500884: Initialization of NSS with read-only database "sql:/etc/ipsec.d" failed (-8174)
Feb  8 10:41:42.501006: FATAL: NSS initialization failure