Closed Bug 202000 Opened 22 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Incorrect processing of user attached PKCS#7 - files do not display

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Security: S/MIME, defect)

Other Branch
x86
All
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED EXPIRED

People

(Reporter: arnaldo, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 User creates a PKCS#7 file using a digital signature program. The resulting PKCS#7 (.p7m) is sent to another using, as an email attachment. On the destination system, if the mail client is Mozilla (including latest 1.4a) or netscape, then the attachment will NOT display. This happens when the p7m file is an attachment (part of a multipart/mixed) and even when it's the whole thing (the contents of the mail itself is a sole p7m file - the mail Content-type is set to application/pkcs7-smime). In either case, the body is a p7m or the p7m being part of a mulitpart body, the MUA must allow access to it, specially when the PKCS#7 contains data. Sounds like Mozilla is handling all PKCS#7 as detached signatures. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use some application to create PKCS#7 file, containing data and signature 2. Send mail, attach file created in step (1) 3. Attachment will not display of allow being detached. Actual Results: No access to the attached file, unless the user can and knowns how to manually recover it from the mail storage. Expected Results: Process the pkcs#7 file accordingly: a) If it's detached signature, part of an SMIME multipart/smime file, it working correctly. b) If the PKCS#7 contains both the signature and the signed-data, then either process it correclty (like comming from an SMIME) of let it be an attachment that Mozilla cannot process.
Summary: Incorrect processing of user attached PKCS#7 - files do not display → Incorrect processing of user attached PKCS#7 - files do not display
Not critical.
Severity: critical → normal
Mass reassign ssaux bugs to nobody
Assignee: ssaux → nobody
Product: PSM → Core
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
Product: Core → MailNews Core
QA Contact: bmartin → s.mime
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