crypto: free disabled OpenSSL compression methods#64683
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Node's compression-enabled OpenSSL build allocates TLS record-compression methods during startup. Clearing the stack loses the only pointers without freeing entries, so LeakSanitizer reports a 24-byte leak. Pop and free every method while preserving the OpenSSL-owned stack. Record compression remains unavailable process-wide, including when SSL_CONF attempts to enable it at a lower security level. Refs: nodejs#62217 Signed-off-by: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
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Summary
Node's compression-enabled OpenSSL build initializes the legacy TLS record-compression methods during startup.
sk_SSL_COMP_zero()removed those methods from the stack without freeing them, so LeakSanitizer reported a 24-byte leak after otherwise successful test runs.Free each method before removing it while keeping OpenSSL's stack container valid. This preserves Node's process-wide CRIME protection, including when
SSL_CONFenables record compression at security level 1, while certificate compression remains available.The regression test starts Node with that unsafe OpenSSL configuration and verifies that its TLS 1.2 ClientHello still advertises only null compression. Without the fix it also advertises zlib.
Refs: #62217