Openssl crashed when loading certificates

[David Li]

Hi,

I am new to openssl programming. My goal is trying to get a simple server
up and running. I am using OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013 on Centos6.5.

I am using SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file() to load my server
certificate files at initialization. The PEM file is created by
concatenating server cert, server key and CA cert together.  I used the
following command line to check its format and it seemed OK.

$ openssl s_server -cert servercert.pem -www
Using default temp DH parameters
Using default temp ECDH parameters
ACCEPT

And I can use openssl s_client command line to connect to the above server
without any issues.


Now when I started my server, the code crashed inside
the SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file():

 if (SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file(ctx, SERVER_CERT, SSL_FILETYPE_PEM) != 1)
{
    int_error("Error loading server certificate");
  }

There wasn't any detailed errors printed out but only:Segmentation fault
(core dumped)

I searched the old mailing list and on the web but found no clues so far.

Can anyone suggest how to debug this issue?

Thanks.

David