178932 - NSS should properly decode unrecognized AVAs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 39494

(NSS :: Libraries, defect)

Description

[Ian McGreer]

NSS does not currently display serialNumber AVAs in a DN (the usual ERR=Unknown
AVA comes up).  It should.

Comment 1

[Ian McGreer]

Morphing bug.

serialNumber is not one of the published attribute types in RFC 2253.  However,
STREET is, I don't believe we support that.

In section 2.4, the RFC says unrecognized attribute types should be converted as
such:

   If the AttributeValue is of a type which does not have a string
   representation defined for it, then it is simply encoded as an
   octothorpe character ('#' ASCII 35) followed by the hexadecimal
   representation of each of the bytes of the BER encoding of the X.500
   AttributeValue.  This form SHOULD be used if the AttributeType is of
   the dotted-decimal form.

example:

1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.0=#04024869,O=Test,C=GB

NSS currently returns "ERR=Unknown AVA" when it encounters an unrecognized
attriubte type.

Comment 2

[Ian McGreer]

Now that I've morphed the bug, I searched around and found that it is a dupe :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39494 ***