What is the stack trace? That's a critical element you left out. It could
just be a class path entry ordering issue.
Gary
On Fri, Jul 26, 2024, 7:39 AM Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org>
wrote:
> Interesting. Thanks,
>
> Since commons-mail is pure Java, there's no way this can be completely
> caused by bugs in commons-mail. though it sounds like some detail in
> commons-mail is tickling other bugs elsewhere in the chain. My guess
> is the network driver is at fault since that's what crashes and it
> only happens in one version of the driver, but it could be the JDK,
> the OS, or all three.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 4:52 AM Adrian Mikula
> <adrian.mik...@rmtglobal.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I am a senior software engineer working on a TomEE project and as part
> of our recent upgrade to Jakarta 10 and Java 17, we also upgraded the
> Apache Commons email library to version 2 which you just released.
> >
> > We encountered a very critical bug which only occurs with certain
> hardware and drivers, but it has very serious impacts on the host OS and
> would be catastrophic if it were to happen on production systems. I
> suggest you look into this as a matter of urgency because I would not want
> anyone else to encounter this bug as it is very bad, but also very obscure
> and could easily be missed during testing.
> >
> >
> > PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
> > On certain physical hardware, with a specific OS network driver
> installed, if the Apache commons email2 library is used and an email is
> sent, the email fails to send, and the OS network driver crashes and the
> computer loses all network access. The network access can only be restored
> by restarting the computer, sometimes multiple times.
> >
> >
> > HARDWARE & OS:
> > Computer: Optiplex 7000
> > Windows 11
> > Ethernet driver: Intel 12.19.2.45
> >
> > SOFTWARE:
> > Java 17
> > Jakarta 10
> > TomEE 9.1.2
> >
> > These dependencies caused the issue:
> > commons-mail = { module = "org.apache.commons:commons-email2-jakarta",
> version = "2.0.0-M1" }
> > commons-mail-core = { module = "org.apache.commons:commons-email2-core",
> version = "2.0.0-M1" }
> >
> > We tried both the snapshot version from a few months ago, and the final
> release version from a few weeks ago.
> > Snapshot repo:
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/
> > Release repo:
> https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-email2-jakarta/2.0.0-M1
> >
> > In the Java code:
> > import org.apache.commons.mail2.core.EmailException;
> > import org.apache.commons.mail2.jakarta.HtmlEmail;
> >
> >
> > STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
> >
> > 1. Make sure you are testing on a computer with the same physical
> hardware/network card
> > 2. Install the exact same version of the Intel ethernet driver. This
> issue does not occur for older/newer versions of the Intel driver
> > 3. Run TomEE9 with the apache-commons-email2 library in the libs
> folder of a WAR deployment.
> > 4. Send an email.
> > 5. The email will never get sent across the network.
> > 6. The computer will lose all network access.
> > 7. Network access will only be restored after restarting the computer.
> >
> > DEBUG NOTES:
> >
> > While debugging the Java stack trace, we found that if the
> commons-email2 libraries are used, somehow one of the Java classes in
> geronimo-mail is called which is part of the TomEE/libs and this crashes
> the computer network. So it might be an issue with commons-email2
> communicating with certain 3rd-party libraries in combination with certain
> hardware/drivers.
> >
> >
> > STEPS TO FIX:
> >
> > If we add an excludes for the Geronimo library, and swap
> apache-commons-email with a different email implementation library, it
> seems fine.
> >
> >
> >
> > Please also note if I update my network driver to the latest Intel
> version, 2.0.0-M1 doesn't crash my network. It also doesn't crash with
> older driver versions, only version 12.19.2.45. This is not an issue for
> Linux systems.
> >
> > Please let me know if you need any more information about how to
> reproduce the issue.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adrian
>
>
>
> --
> Elliotte Rusty Harold
> elh...@ibiblio.org
>
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