SSL Bug in Fedora Core 8 (and 6)

Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 11:47:46 UTC 2007


On 28/11/2007, Duncan Berriman <duncan at dcl.co.uk> wrote:
> I have found a problem with openSSL on FC8. The site being connected to has
> a
> TLSv1 and SSLV3 SSL Certificate, however as of Fedora Core 6
> onwards if SSLv2 is disabled an SSL connection can not be negotiated.
>
> openssl s_client -no_ssl2 -connect xxxxxx.xxxx.com:443
> CONNECTED(00000003)
> 2159:error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl handshake
> failure:s23_lib.c:188:
>
> On Fedora Core 4 it works fine and wither a TLSv1 or SSLv3
> connection can be made.
>
> New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is RC4-MD5
> Server public key is 1024 bit
> SSL-Session:
>     Protocol  : TLSv1
>     Cipher    : RC4-MD5
>     Session-ID:
> 00152056A7A28668B4EB1451B8A2F6809C29A16858585858474743BD00006718
>     Session-ID-ctx:
>     Master-Key:
> 720DC5F3697624BF8C3BEA800AC9EB386B234BB759F9ACD338ADA9DDEBB090
> 9FD693C0F32DD0A6D577D6CA18A6345C72
>     Key-Arg   : None
>     Krb5 Principal: None
>     Start Time: 1195851233
>     Timeout   : 300 (sec)
>     Verify return code: 18 (self signed certificate)
>
> This encounted on a live server at a data
> centre running Fedora Core 6. I then did a fresh install on
> another machine at the office of FC6 and reproduced the
> problem. I then did a fresh install of FC8 on the same
> machine and again managed to reproduce them straight away.
>
> I have since downgraded the live server to FC4 and it has
> Fixed the issue. Problem is not apparent in FC4, Enterprise 3
> Or enterprise 4.
>
> Happy to provide the server name off list or do any debugging
> If someone can tell me what they need.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Duncan

Sounds like you should file a bug report at http://bugzilla.redhat.com




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