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diff --git a/changes/rsa_init_bug b/changes/rsa_init_bug new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6b5fb4f2f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/rsa_init_bug @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ + o Major bugfixes (key management): + - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling pointer + to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here should be + limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is running an + engine that makes key generation failures possible, or if OpenSSL runs + out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by + Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and Baishakhi Ray. |