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Bug 921976

Summary: vsftpd server fails during large ASCII file transfer over SSL
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Jiri Skala <jskala>
Component: vsftpdAssignee: Martin Osvald 🛹 <mosvald>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Stanislav Zidek <szidek>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.3CC: aglotov, brwillia, btotty, cww, dchia, gnaik, hkario, jballantyne, jkohrs, jkurik, jskala, ksrot, mhernon, mkolaja, ovasik
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: EasyFix, Patch, ZStream
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: 956551 977849 1124377 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-10-22 07:14:15 UTC Type: Bug
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The updated 'aslim' patch fixes the issue for me none

Description Jiri Skala 2013-03-15 10:54:07 UTC
Description of problem:
The vsftpd server fails trying to transfer a large ASCII file over SSL. The lftp  with switched on debug information produces following output:

------ [snip] ------
---> RETR tmp/test.out
<--- 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for tmp/test.out (312294 bytes).
Certificate: C=US,ST=Illinois,L=Bloomington,O=Hewlett-Packard Co,CN=bc-linux-2.msr.hp.com,EMAIL=bill.cadier
 Issued by: C=US,ST=Illinois,L=Bloomington,O=Hewlett-Packard Co,CN=bc-linux-2.msr.hp.com,EMAIL=bill.cadier
WARNING: Certificate verification: Not trusted
WARNING: Certificate verification: The certificate's owner does not match hostname '127.0.0.1'

**** gnutls_record_recv: A record packet with illegal version was received.
---> ABOR
---- Closing aborted data socket
---- Closing control socket
get: Fatal error: gnutls_record_recv: A record packet with illegal version was received.
------ [snip] ------


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vsftp-2.2.2-11.el6.x86_64.rpm

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. prepare 12 MB test file for transfer
2. lftp -d -e "get -a tmp/test.out" -u bill 127.0.0.1
  
Actual results:
the file transfer is aborted

Expected results:
the file transfer succeeds

Additional info:

Comment 3 Jiri Skala 2013-03-22 13:27:46 UTC
Created attachment 714544 [details]
The updated 'aslim' patch fixes the issue for me

The attached patch is an update of the patch that fixes BZ#708657.

The original patch increases size of VSFTP_AS_LIMIT while this bug is fixed increasing VSFTP_PRIVSOCK_MAXSTR twice.