252271 - CERT_VerifyCert with param certUsageVerifyCA fails or asserts

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(NSS :: Libraries, defect, P1)

Description

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

Bob recommended I could call CERT_VerifyCert with certUsageVerifyCA to check
whether the given cert is a valid CA cert.
However, this crashes using NSS code on branch MOZILLA_1_7_0_BRANCH as of
Mozilla 1.7.1

Comment 1

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

Attachment: Proposed fix

If you agree with this patch, I would like to land it on MOZILLA_1_7_0_BRANCH
as part of the fix for bug 249004.

Comment 2

[Robert Relyea]

Comment on attachment 153769 [details] [diff] [review]
Proposed fix

I'd like Julien to review this as well. If it goes in, I'd like to see it go
into the trunk and 3.9 branch as well.

bob

Comment 3

[Julien Pierre]

Kai,

Was this case just asserting in the "default" case of the switch statement, or
is it also crashing in optimized code, and if so, how ? I'd like to understand
this better before putting the sr+ flag.

Comment 4

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

Julien, yes, it was crashing because of the PORT_Assert in the default statement.

Comment 5

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

Could you please include this patch in NSS_CLIENT_TAG?
This is required to land bug 249004 on the trunk of Mozilla.
Thanks a lot.

Comment 6

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Marking P1 for NSS 3.9.3.  

Note that this bug (midssing case) was fixed on the trunk in rev 1.65, 
back in April.  That revision was supposently ported to the NSS 3.9 branch
for mozilla 1.7, but this fix was apprently omitted.  :( 
So, this patch needs to go into the 3.9 branch, and the tag moved to the 
new revision for that file only.  

Comment 7

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Taking bug.

Comment 8

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Checking in certdb.c; new revision: 1.61.2.4; previous revision: 1.61.2.3

I moved the NSS_CLIENT_TAG from 1.61.2.3 to 1.61.2.4