39489 - Uninitialized memory read in CERT_DecodeDERCertificate()

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(NSS :: Libraries, defect, P3)

Description

[Fred Roeber]

This is a replacement for Netscape bug
http://scopus/bugsplat/show_bug.cgi?id=113763

In HCL_1_51
[W] UMR: Uninitialized memory read in CERT_DecodeDERCertificate {1 occurrence}
    Reading 4 bytes from 0x0004fafc (4 bytes at 0x0004fafc uninitialized)
    Address 0x0004fafc points into a fiber's stack 
    Address 0x0004fafc is 28 bytes past the start of local variable 'entry' in 
certcallback
    Thread ID: 0xb8
    Error location
        CERT_DecodeDERCertificate [certdb.c:518]
        certcallback   [pcertdb.c:4356]
        SEC_TraverseDBEntries [pcertdb.c:4306]
        SEC_TraversePermCerts [pcertdb.c:4393]
        pk11_importKeyDB [pkcs11.c:3274]
        NSC_FindObjectsInit [pkcs11.c:3557]
        pk11_FindObjectByTemplate [pk11cert.c:100]
        PK11_MatchItem [pk11cert.c:160]
        PK11_FindPrivateKeyFromCert [pk11cert.c:1169]
        prot_ssl_init  [prot_ssl.c:217]
                        nickname);
                    goto done;
                    }
             =>     psk = PK11_FindPrivateKeyFromCert(ppk11si, pcc, NULL);
                    if (psk == NULL) {
                    nslog(NULL, NSLOG_ERR, "Could not find private key\n");
                    goto done;
        imap_main      [imapd.c:421]


------- Additional Comments From nelsonb  07/01/98 16:47 ------- 

Changed product version to 1.5

Comment 1

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Nelson, could you take a look at this Purify UMR error? Thanks.

Comment 2

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Javi fixed this bug back in September 1999, 
long before Fred moved this bug from bugsplat to bugzilla.  See
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/security/nss/lib/certdb/pcertdb.c#4528

Comment 3

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

*** Bug 39493 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***