On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:02:51PM -0500, mnordhoff wrote:
> I run the nginx.org mainline packages on Ubuntu 12.04, 32- and 64-bit. I use
> a wacky custom log format, and after 1.5.9 was released today, I enabled
> logging the $ssl_session_id variable. I later ran an SSL Labs SSL Server
> Test, [0] which makes numerous HTTPS requests of various sorts, and lo and
> behold, one of my worker processes core dumped. I fooled around with my
> configuration and determined that the problem was logging $ssl_session_id.
> If I don't log it, it's fine. If I enable a log that contains
> $ssl_session_id -- even only $ssl_session_id -- it crashes.

The following patch fixes this:

diff --git a/src/event/ngx_event_openssl.c b/src/event/ngx_event_openssl.c
--- a/src/event/ngx_event_openssl.c
+++ b/src/event/ngx_event_openssl.c
@@ -2509,6 +2509,10 @@ ngx_ssl_get_session_id(ngx_connection_t

sess = SSL_get0_session(c->ssl->connection);

+ if (sess == NULL) {
+ return NGX_ERROR;
+ }
+
buf = sess->session_id;
len = sess->session_id_length;

> Normal HTTPS requests -- well, I just tried curl and Firefox -- work fine. I
> notice that curl does log a session ID, but for Firefox that field is just a
> "-". I have no idea if that's an(other) Nginx bug or just a difference
> between the two clients, but it smells funny to me. I briefly enabled
> $ssl_session_id logging on 2013-12-17 with 1.5.7 or 1.5.8 and whatever
> Firefox version was current at the time and it did log he session data. (I
> never tried curl or SSL Labs then.)
>
> nginx.conf: https://mn9.us/tmp/nginx.conf (my logging nonsense is at the
> end)
>
> Good and bad log snippets at https://mn9.us/tmp/nginx.log and pasted
> below.
>
> Bad:
>
> ==> /var/log/nginx/access13.log <==
> 173.203.79.216 36823 "www.mn9.us" 192.155.93.101 443 "mn9.us" 586 1 on
> TLSv1.2 - "-" [2014-01-22T18:05:54+00:00] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 975 612 - "-"
> "SSL Labs (https://www.ssllabs.com/about/assessment.html)" "-"
> "ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA" "-"
> 173.203.79.216 36876 "-" 192.155.93.101 443 "mn9.us" 594 1 on TLSv1 - "-"
> [2014-01-22T18:06:06+00:00] "HEAD
> /?SSL_Labs_Renegotiation_Test=User_Agent_May_Not_Show HTTP/1.0" 400 0 0 -
> "-" "SSL Labs (https://www.ssllabs.com/about/assessment.html)" "-"
> "DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA" "-"
>
> ==> /var/log/nginx/error.log <==
> 2014/01/22 18:06:06 [notice] 24848#0: *595 SSL renegotiation disabled while
> reading client request headers, client: 173.203.79.216, server: mn9.us,
> request: "HEAD /?SSL_Labs_Renegotiation_Test=User_Agent_May_Not_Show
> HTTP/1.0"
> 2014/01/22 18:06:07 [notice] 24681#0: signal 17 (SIGCHLD) received
> 2014/01/22 18:06:07 [alert] 24681#0: worker process 24848 exited on signal
> 11 (core dumped)
> 2014/01/22 18:06:07 [notice] 24681#0: start worker process 26865
> 2014/01/22 18:06:07 [notice] 24681#0: signal 29 (SIGIO) received
>
> Good:
>
> ==> /var/log/nginx/access11.log <==
> 173.203.79.216 60618 "www.mn9.us" 192.155.93.101 443 "mn9.us" 1003 1 on
> TLSv1.2 - "-" [2014-01-22T18:27:09+00:00] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 975 612 - "-"
> "SSL Labs (https://www.ssllabs.com/about/assessment.html)" "-"
> "ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA"
> 173.203.79.216 60701 "-" 192.155.93.101 443 "mn9.us" 1008 1 on TLSv1 - "-"
> [2014-01-22T18:27:22+00:00] "HEAD
> /?SSL_Labs_Renegotiation_Test=User_Agent_May_Not_Show HTTP/1.0" 400 0 0 -
> "-" "SSL Labs (https://www.ssllabs.com/about/assessment.html)" "-"
> "DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA"
>
> ==> /var/log/nginx/error.log <==
> 2014/01/22 18:27:22 [notice] 27156#0: *1009 SSL renegotiation disabled while
> reading client request headers, client: 173.203.79.216, server: mn9.us,
> request: "HEAD /?SSL_Labs_Renegotiation_Test=User_Agent_May_Not_Show
> HTTP/1.0"
>
> ==> /var/log/nginx/access11.log <==
> 173.203.79.216 60948 "-" 192.155.93.101 443 "mn9.us" 1009 1 on TLSv1.2 - "-"
> [2014-01-22T18:27:22+00:00] "HEAD
> /?SSL_Labs_Renegotiation_Test=User_Agent_May_Not_Show HTTP/1.0" 400 0 0 -
> "-" "SSL Labs (https://www.ssllabs.com/about/assessment.html)" "-" "(NONE)"
>
> [0] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html

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