http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2240&user=guest&pass=guest
This affects us, I noticed when I had problems connecting with gajim to a certain server using TLS. Below patch lifted from openssl CVS fixes this. On a different note, we still have openssl 1.0.0a when "OpenSSL 1.0.0e is now available, including important bug and security fixes". -- viq Index: src/ssl/t1_lib.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libssl/src/ssl/t1_lib.c,v retrieving revision 1.8 diff -u -d -r1.8 t1_lib.c --- src/ssl/t1_lib.c 10 Feb 2011 22:40:27 -0000 1.8 +++ src/ssl/t1_lib.c 17 Sep 2011 20:57:50 -0000 @@ -1453,23 +1453,20 @@ int al = SSL_AD_UNRECOGNIZED_NAME; #ifndef OPENSSL_NO_EC - /* If we are client and using an elliptic curve cryptography cipher suite, then server - * must return a an EC point formats lists containing uncompressed. + /* If we are client and using an elliptic curve cryptography cipher + * suite, then if server returns an EC point formats lists extension + * it must contain uncompressed. */ unsigned long alg_k = s->s3->tmp.new_cipher->algorithm_mkey; unsigned long alg_a = s->s3->tmp.new_cipher->algorithm_auth; if ((s->tlsext_ecpointformatlist != NULL) && (s->tlsext_ecpointformatlist_length > 0) && + (s->session->tlsext_ecpointformatlist != NULL) && (s->session->tlsext_ecpointformatlist_length > 0) && ((alg_k & (SSL_kEECDH|SSL_kECDHr|SSL_kECDHe)) || (alg_a & SSL_aECDSA))) { /* we are using an ECC cipher */ size_t i; unsigned char *list; int found_uncompressed = 0; - if ((s->session->tlsext_ecpointformatlist == NULL) || (s->session->tlsext_ecpointformatlist_length == 0)) - { - SSLerr(SSL_F_SSL_CHECK_SERVERHELLO_TLSEXT,SSL_R_TLS_INVALID_ECPOINTFORMAT_LIST); - return -1; - } list = s->session->tlsext_ecpointformatlist; for (i = 0; i < s->session->tlsext_ecpointformatlist_length; i++) {