Random and rare Seg faults at openssl library level

[Jan Just Keijser]

Hi,

On 06/01/21 18:10, Gimhani Uthpala wrote:
> Dear team,
> I'm running an application which uses openssl for secure communication 
> between processes. I am getting seg-faults at openssl level. This only 
> occurred very randomly and the following are stacks that seg faults  
> at openssl level in the given 2 cases. We are using openssl 1.0.2k.
>
version 1.0.2k suggests you are using RHEL7/CentOS 7, correct?
> Went through the security vulnerabilities list for this version but 
> couldn't find a clue. Running valgrind too didn't give an exact clue 
> related to the issue. Can you please guide me how can I find the exact 
> root cause for the seg fault?
>
> I am calling SSL_do_handshake(ssl_ctx) from my code level and both the 
> below seg faults are occuring from it's inside.
>
> #0  0x00007fd64cdabdd3 in ASN1_item_verify () from /lib64/libcrypto.so.10
> #1  0x00007fd64cdcac58 in internal_verify () from /lib64/libcrypto.so.10
> #2  0x00007fd64cdccaef in X509_verify_cert () from /lib64/libcrypto.so.10
> #3  0x00007fd64d111c68 in ssl_verify_cert_chain () from 
> /lib64/libssl.so.10
> #4  0x00007fd64d0e8cc6 in ssl3_get_client_certificate () from 
> /lib64/libssl.so.10
> *#5  0x00007fd64d0ea3f8 in ssl3_accept () from /lib64/libssl.so.10*
>
>
so the segfault occurs inside ASN1_item_verify () when verifying the 
certificate - it could be a malformed certificate with invalid ASN1 
encoding; do you have the certificate that causes the segfault?

If you do not, then it is worthwhile recording/storing all certificates 
until you find the one that causes the segfault and then examine it.


HTH,

JJK
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