This bug was fixed in the package gnutls28 - 3.5.18-1ubuntu1.4
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gnutls28 (3.5.18-1ubuntu1.4) bionic; urgency=medium
* d/p/50_Update-session_ticket.c-to-add-support-for-zero-leng.patch:
- add support for zero length session tickets returned from the server,
thanks Rod for the backport and testing! (lp: #1876286)
-- Sebastien Bacher <seb...@ubuntu.com> Wed, 17 Jun 2020 12:03:27
+0200
** Changed in: gnutls28 (Ubuntu Bionic)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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Title:
Evolution reports "Error performing TLS handshake: Internal error in
memory allocation."
Status in Gnutls:
Unknown
Status in claws-mail package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in evolution package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in gnutls28 package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in gnutls28 source package in Xenial:
Fix Committed
Status in gnutls28 source package in Bionic:
Fix Released
Status in claws-mail source package in Focal:
Invalid
Status in evolution source package in Focal:
Invalid
Status in gnutls28 source package in Focal:
Fix Released
Status in claws-mail source package in Groovy:
Invalid
Status in evolution source package in Groovy:
Invalid
Status in gnutls28 source package in Groovy:
Fix Released
Status in gnutls28 package in CentOS:
Unknown
Bug description:
[Impact]
Evolution and Claws email clients stopped connecting to Yahoo, AOL,
Verizon, AT&T, Bell South, etc email servers which are run by the same
group. Users are unable to get to their email.
The underlying problem is that GnuTLS does not support zero length
session tickets. The fix works by checking that that ticket_len > 0
prior to calling gnutls_realloc_fast().
Nominating for SRU, fulfills: "Updates that need to be applied to
Ubuntu packages to adjust to changes in the environment, server
protocols, web services, and similar, i. e. where the current version
just ceases to work."
[testcase]
GnuTLS 3.6:
$ gnutls-cli --priority=NORMAL:-VERS-TLS1.3 pop.verizon.net:995
[...]
- Status: The certificate is trusted.
*** Fatal error: Internal error in memory allocation.
the error should be fixed with the update
GnuTLS 3.5:
$ gnutls-cli pop.verizon.net:995
GnuTLS 3.4:
$ gnutls-cli -p 995 pop.verizon.net
[regression potential]
The fix works by checking that that ticket_len > 0 prior to calling
gnutls_realloc_fast(). This creates two separate execution paths:
1) If the session ticket length > 0, which is the primary use case,
the original code block will be executed.
2) If the session ticket len is 0, then the original code block will
be skipped.
Testing will need to include connections to servers that return
session ticket length > 0 as well as ones that return session ticket
length of 0. Wireshark can be used to look at the NewSessionTicket
handshake message to confirm the session ticket length.
[Other Info]
The GnuTLS project's merge request 1260 fixes this bug. It was reviewed and
approved by Daiki Ueno:
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1260
According to the GnuTLS project: "We utilize two continuous integration
systems, the gitlab-ci and travis. Gitlab-CI is used to test most of the Linux
systems (see .gitlab-ci.yml), and is split in two phases, build image creation
and compilation/test. The build image creation is done at the
gnutls/build-images subproject and uploads the image at the gitlab.com
container registry. The compilation/test phase is on every commit to gnutls
project."
Here are the results of the gitlab-ci pipeline showing all 19 tests passed
for merge request 1260:
https://gitlab.com/rrivers2/gnutls/-/pipelines/149155018
Page 8, section 3.3 of RFC5077 describes the NewSessionTicket handshake
message and indicates that a zero length session ticket is a legitimate value:
https://tools.ietf.org/pdf/rfc5077.pdf
--------------------------
When GnuTLS connects to servers that return zero length session
tickets using older TLS versions it returns the error code
GNUTLS_E_MEMORY_ERROR and the connection is closed. This prevents
Evolution and Claws email clients from connecting to Yahoo, AOL,
Verizon, AT&T, Bell South, etc email servers. Evolution displays the
message "Error performing TLS handshake: Internal error in memory
allocation"
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: libgnutls30 3.5.18-1ubuntu1.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-51.44~18.04.2-generic 5.3.18
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-51-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri May 1 07:03:51 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-12 (870 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
(20170801)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no username)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnutls28
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-12-28 (489 days ago)
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