SSL illegal parameter error on connecting to some servers with SSL enabled

[Thomas Winwood]

What I expected to happen: connecting normally to the network (in this example, synIRC).

What happened instead:
[19:51:16] * Looking up irc.synirc.net
[19:51:16] * Connecting to irc.synirc.net (85.17.155.18:6697)
[19:51:17] * * Subject: /C=NL/ST=Haarlem/O=SynIRC/OU=FluffyPony/CN=fluffypony.nl.eu.synirc.net
[19:51:17] * * Issuer: /C=NL/ST=Haarlem/O=SynIRC/OU=FluffyPony/CN=fluffypony.nl.eu.synirc.net
[19:51:17] * * Subject: /C=NL/ST=Haarlem/O=SynIRC/OU=FluffyPony/CN=fluffypony.nl.eu.synirc.net
[19:51:17] * * Issuer: /C=NL/ST=Haarlem/O=SynIRC/OU=FluffyPony/CN=fluffypony.nl.eu.synirc.net
[19:51:17] * * Subject: /C=NL/ST=Haarlem/O=SynIRC/OU=FluffyPony/CN=fluffypony.nl.eu.synirc.net
[19:51:17] * * Issuer: /C=NL/ST=Haarlem/O=SynIRC/OU=FluffyPony/CN=fluffypony.nl.eu.synirc.net
[19:51:18] * Connection failed ((336151575) error:14094417:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert illegal parameter)

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04

$ apt-cache policy hexchat
hexchat:
  Installed: 2.10.1-2
  Candidate: 2.10.1-2
  Version table:
 *** 2.10.1-2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy openssl
openssl:
  Installed: 1.0.1f-1ubuntu11.4
  Candidate: 1.0.1f-1ubuntu11.4
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.1f-1ubuntu11.4 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.0.1f-1ubuntu11 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

I can't reproduce this problem with hexchat version 2.12.4. Can you confirm that it is fixed for you as well?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for hexchat (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]