Race condition in /ccache/cc_memory.c

Jeffrey Altman jaltman at secure-endpoints.com
Thu Apr 30 15:59:34 EDT 2009


How have you confirmed that the issue you are experiencing is the one
described in the Nov 2005?

do you have a stack trace or a crash dump from the application?

Hong Ye wrote:
> latest release KFW 3.2.2.
>
> Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>> Hong Ye wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Our authentication application developed using MIT kerberos crashed
>>> in multi-thread environment on Windows. I found this post which
>>> describes the same problem as we were seeing. The post was dated
>>> Nov,2005. Has this problem been resolved in latest Kerberos library.
>>> If not, is there work around?
>>>
>>> "Using the MEMORY credentials cache from multiple threads is not
>>> thread-safe and crashes."
>>> http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/krb5-bugs/2005-November/004061.html
>>>
>>> Any suggestions are appreciated,
>>>
>>> Hong
>>>
>>>     
>> What version of KFW are you using?
>>
>>
>>   
>
>
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