Opera 6.03/Linux crashes on HTTPS over Squid Proxy on a site

[Peter Bieringer <pb () bieringer de>]

Hi,

sure very late, forgotten. This is not a real advisory but for
information, because problem was found during private usage.


Problem found with version

        opera-6.03-20020813.3-shared-qt.i386.rpm
        (perhaps older versions, too)

on a Red Hat Linux 7.3 fully updated system (time around August)

Used squid version: 2.4.STABLE6-6.7.3


Problem description:

In case of using Squid as HTTPS-proxy Opera crashes reproducable if a
HTTPS request was started to a site after (not by a global CA signed)
certificate was accepted:

URL tried: https://www.aerasec.de/

Without HTTPS-proxy (direct connection) Opera didn't crash.


Solution:
Upgrade to availible version 6.10 or later


History:
2002 Aug 19: first report to Opera to security at opera dot com
2002 Aug 20: first reaction
2002 Sep ??: provide core file, strace and captured packets
2002 Oct 04: reproduced by Opera, told that pre-release of 6.1 is ok
2002 Nov ??: 6.10 was released without this problem


They told me nothing about the reason of the problem, the
reproduction of the problem needs more time than their check that the
pre-release of 6.10 has no problems...


BTW: Sometimes the newer version of Opera (Linux, but also Window)
still crashes mostly on heavy usage of different SSL sites, has
someone else such experiences made?


        Peter

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