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Bug #12292

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Race between OpenSSL::SSL::SSLSocket#stop and #connect can cause a segmentation fault

Added by rhenium (Kazuki Yamaguchi) almost 8 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Target version:
-
ruby -v:
ruby 2.4.0dev (2016-04-15 trunk 54594) [x86_64-linux]
[ruby-core:74978]

Description

The following code will demonstrate the issue:

require "openssl"
require "socket"

ctx = OpenSSL::SSL::SSLContext.new
ctx.ciphers = "aNULL"

sock1, sock2 = UNIXSocket.pair
ssl1 = OpenSSL::SSL::SSLSocket.new(sock1, ctx)
ssl2 = OpenSSL::SSL::SSLSocket.new(sock2, ctx)

t = Thread.new { ssl1.connect } # => segmentation fault
ssl2.accept

ssl1.close # calls #stop (private method)
sock1.close

t.value

The SSL (OpenSSL land object) can be freed by SSLSocket#stop (#close) while SSLSocket#connect is still using it. This happens because SSLSocket#connect releases GVL while waiting for the peer.

There are two ways to resolve this:

  • Check that the SSL object is still set every time after reacquiring GVL
  • Change SSLSocket#stop not to free the SSL object

The latter introduces an incompatibility (#stop is currently documented as "prepares it for another connection").
I however prefer this because similar bugs can be introduced in future if we choose an ad-hoc way, and I don't think anyone reuses the SSLSocket object (keep in mind that we don't have interface to replace the underlying IO object).

Anyway I attach fixes in both way.

  • 0001-ext-openssl-check-that-the-SSL-object-is-still-set-a.patch: the fix in the first way
  • 0001-ext-openssl-make-OpenSSL-SSL-SSLSocket-non-reusable.patch: the fix in the second way
  • 0002-ext-openssl-some-trivial-cleanups.patch: some minor cleanups, not actually related to this issue (what's the most desirable way to submit such trivial patches?)

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Related issues 5 (0 open5 closed)

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