EEP crashes "authentication failed: invalid local key (error -1)"

Products

• CA Automic Dollar Universe

Issue/Introduction

EEP server crashes at a given time with the following kind of errors in universe.log:

|ERROR|X|EEP|pid=p.t| kTrtAuthRequest | Authentication failed: invalid local key (error -1)

|ERROR|X|EEP|pid=p.t| o_sld_auth_client | kTrtAuthRequest in error [-1] 

|ERROR|X|EEP|pid=p.t| o_eep_srv_impl_api_callba | Error authenticating the client. o_eep_auth_client returns -1

|ERROR|X|IO |pid=p.t| u_call_srvio_ver | Error connecting to EEP X: Connection closed 

The core has the following traces:

Core was generated by `./uxeepsrv start COMPANY X NODE'.

Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

#0 0x00000000005e62d2 in owls_ws_rest_name_value_pair_free ()

(gdb) where

#0 0x00000000005e62d2 in owls_ws_rest_name_value_pair_free ()

#1 0x00000000005156c4 in owls_resource_ws_rest_free ()

#2 0x000000000055dbb6 in owls_condition_wrt_free ()

#3 0x0000000000560528 in owls_supervisor_free ()

#4 0x000000000041fbf1 in o_eep_srv_impl_api_callback ()

#5 0x000000000066bb83 in OServiceApp_IncCnxHandler_ProcessIncomingConnection_Scm ()

#6 0x000000000066a5c8 in OServiceApp_IncCnxHandler_ProcessIncomingConnection ()

#7 0x0000000000688ad9 in OThreadPool_ExecuteWork ()

#8 0x00000000006893d3 in OThreadPoolWorkerThread_Run ()

#9 0x0000000000686589 in ThreadRun ()

#10 0x0000003773607aa1 in __reclaim_stacks () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0

#11 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Environment

Release : 6.x

Component : DOLLAR UNIVERSE

Cause

Error was due to a structure being invalid when an error is faced on local authentication.

Resolution

Update to a fix version listed below or a newer version if available.

Fix version(s): 

Component: Application.Server

Dollar Universe 6.10.11 - Released 2nd October 2019