196147 - Cannot open Preferences or View Page Info after accepting a self-sign certificate permanently

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect)

Description

[Kent Tong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

After accepting a self-sign certificate permanently in the browser and
viewing the root CA certificate in Preferences | Security, I can no
longer open Preferences or View Page Info (on any page). The browser
simply hangs when I try to do so.

I am not sure if it matters. When I viewed the root CA certificates,
I closed the Preferences window first and then close the "certificate
manager" (not sure if this is the right name).


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open browser or Mozilla mail.
2. choose Edit | Preferences.


Actual Results:  
It hangs.

Expected Results:  
Open the Preferences window.

Comment 1

[MrJeff]

Can you provide a copy of the self-sign certificate in question, and how you
made it / found it?

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> PSM

Comment 3

[John Unruh]

Something else to try would be to upgrade to 1.3b, in a new dirctory of course.

Comment 4

[Kent Tong]

I don't have the self-sign certificate any more because I have
replaced it with a real certificate. The only copy left is
the one stored some where by Mozilla.

I use openssl to create the key and the self-sign certificate:
1. openssl genrsa -out file.key 1024
2. openssl req -new -key file.key -x509 -out file.crt

As far as I can tell, Mozilla imported this certificate just
fine and I could (once) see it listed as a trusted root CA 
certificate and expanded the cert to see its details.

Comment 5

[John Unruh]

WFM. I followed the steps in comment #4, and didn't run into any problems.

Comment 6

[Patrick]

Possibly related bugs:

bug 204883 
bug 196147 [this one]
bug 205124

caused by bug 191524?