Bug 800904 - OpenLDAP linked with Mozilla NSS intermittently fails to initialize
Summary: OpenLDAP linked with Mozilla NSS intermittently fails to initialize
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: curl
Version: 6.1
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
urgent
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Kamil Dudka
QA Contact: Jiri Jaburek
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Depends On: 738456
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-03-07 13:50 UTC by RHEL Program Management
Modified: 2018-04-17 09:31 UTC (History)
17 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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The OpenLDAP suite was recently modified to use NSS instead of OpenSSL as the SSL back end. This change led to collisions between libcurl and OpenLDAP on NSS initialization and shutdown. Consequently, applications that were using both, libcurl and OpenLDAP, failed to establish SSL connections. This update modifies libcurl to use the same NSS API as OpenLDAP, which prevents collisions from occurring. Applications using OpenLDAP and libcurl can now connect to the LDAP server over SSL as expected.
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Last Closed: 2012-03-28 09:26:24 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2012:0430 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE curl bug fix update 2012-03-28 13:25:13 UTC

Description RHEL Program Management 2012-03-07 13:50:57 UTC 
This bug has been copied from bug #738456 and has been proposed
to be backported to 6.2 z-stream (EUS).
Comment 8 Miroslav Svoboda 2012-03-14 13:10:15 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
The OpenLDAP suite was recently modified to use NSS instead of OpenSSL as the SSL back end. This change led to collisions between libcurl and OpenLDAP on NSS initialization and shutdown. Consequently, applications that were using both, libcurl and OpenLDAP, failed to establish SSL connections. This update modifies libcurl to use the same NSS API as OpenLDAP, which prevents collisions from occurring. Applications using OpenLDAP and libcurl can now connect to the LDAP server over SSL as expected.
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2012-03-28 09:26:24 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0430.html
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