[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#590610: cups: https interface has SSL error ("SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length")

[Josh Triplett]

Package: cups
Version: 1.4.4-2
Severity: important

("important" because I assume not everyone sees this problem; otherwise
I'd say "grave".)

Attempting to access the CUPS https interface gives this error in iceweasel:

> Secure Connection Failed
> 
> An error occurred during a connection to localhost:631.
> 
> SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.
> 
> (Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-rc6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.112            add and remove users and groups
ii  bc                      1.06.95-2        The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal
ii  cups-client             1.4.4-2          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-common             1.4.4-2          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.33           Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript             8.71~dfsg2-3     The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-client3        0.6.27-1         Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3        0.6.27-1         Avahi common library
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-2         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcups2                1.4.4-2          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupscgi1             1.4.4-2          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsdriver1          1.4.4-2          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2           1.4.4-2          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsmime1            1.4.4-2          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsppdc1            1.4.4-2          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.24-2         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.4-7        GCC support library
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2        1.8.1+dfsg-5     MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libijs-0.35             0.35-7           IJS raster image transport protoco
ii  libkrb5-3               1.8.1+dfsg-5     MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2           2.4.23-2         OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g                1.1.1-3          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1               1.1.24           library for handling paper charact
ii  libpoppler5             0.12.4-1         PDF rendering library
ii  libslp1                 1.2.1-7.7        OpenSLP libraries
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.4-7          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4            2:0.1.12-15      userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.1         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules            5.10.1-13        Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils           0.12.4-1         PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps                  1:3.2.8-9        /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert                1.0.25           simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  ttf-freefont            20090104-7       Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cups recommends:
pn  cups-driver-gutenprint    <none>         (no description available)
ii  foomatic-filters          4.0-20090509-1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii  ghostscript-cups          8.71~dfsg2-3   The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                      1.4.4-2    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
pn  cups-pdf                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  cups-ppdc                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  foomatic-db                   20100630-1 OpenPrinting printer support - dat
ii  foomatic-db-engine            4.0.4-1    OpenPrinting printer support - pro
ii  hplip                         3.10.6-1   HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst
pn  smbclient                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  udev                          160-1      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japanese | <none>     (no description available)

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