SSL connection issue via perl

OS: CentOS 6.6
Postgres Version: 9.3.10

I have a script that is worked for years that does the following

- Connect to postgres and get a list of URLs to poll for status
- close connection
- Start threads to poll the URLs
- cleanup threads and collect the results.
- Connect to postgres and write the url status.
- close connection

We updated perl SSL libraries to the latest version, one of which was
Net::SSLeay 1.35 -> 1.72

Now the script dies without any feedback when attempting the 2nd
connection. The only hint at the problem is

/var/log/messages
Dec 31 14:04:03 iprobe002 kernel: iPoller2.pl[16044] general protection
ip:7f677fde112c sp:7fff5db9e328 error:0 in SSLeay.so[7f677fd6a000+94000]

/var/log/postgresql
Dec 31 14:04:03 iprobe002 postgres[16255]: [4-1] LOG: could not accept SSL
connection: EOF detected

I have worked around the immediate issue by keeping the 1st connection open
for the entire script instead of making 2 connections, but I would like to
try to find out what is going wrong.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
George

iGLASS Networks
www.iglass.net