SEC_E_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL on Windows

"Jason B. Nance" <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:13:41 -0500 (CDT)

Hello all,

We are seeing intermittent errors with Git 2.16.2.windows.1 on Windows 7 connecting to TFS 2017 (running in a Jenkins slave process):

    ERROR: Error cloning remote repo 'origin' hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "C:\tools\Git\bin\git.exe fetch --tags --progress https://internal-tfs-server/tfs/project/_git/repo +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" returned status code 128:
    stdout: 
    stderr: fatal: unable to access 'https://internal-tfs-server/tfs/project/_git/repo/': schannel: next InitializeSecurityContext failed: SEC_E_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL (0x80090321) - The buffers supplied to a function was too small.

I found the following thread from 2015 on a cURL list that seems to be similar:

    https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-04/0136.html

However, it looks like a patch was released for that issue:

    https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-04/0152.html

Rebooting the Windows client appears to resolve the issue for a time.

Has anyone else experienced this and found a resolution or workaround?

Thank you,

j