[Pki-devel] [PATCH] 29 Fix for ticket 219 - BugZilla issue 816232

[Ade Lee]

ack - pushed to dogtag 9

On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 13:29 -0400, Abhishek Koneru wrote:
> Please review the patch for ticket 219 - fix BZ 816232 - incorrect
> casting from BigInt to Int in installation wizard. This patch is for the
> DogTag 9 branch. The previous one was for DogTag 10 branch.
> 
> Defect description:
>   The serial number generated for certificates is wrong when the number
> is large. Problem is due to the conversion of BigInteger to integer
> while generating a new serial number, which truncates the most
> significant bits in the serial number and therefore a large number (eg.
> 10fff0001) becomes a smaller number (eg. fff0001). This conversion in
> turn leads to a collision if a certificate with the smaller number
> exists in the database.
> 
> Steps to reproduce the defect:
>  
>  - Create a CA. - (1)
>  - Edit the fields minSerialNumber and maxSerialNumber in the
> <CA-Installation Path>/conf.CS.cfg to large values like 100000000 and
> 110000000.
>  - Restart the CA.
>  - Configure the CA.
>  - Create a new CA.
>  - Configure this as a clone to (1)CA
>  - After the Certificates are generated, view the serial number by
> clicking on "View Certificate in PrettyPrint".
> 
> Results:
> Before the patch is applied: The serial number is truncated.(Wrong)
> After the patch is applied: The serial number is found as expected.
> 
> --Abhishek Koneru
> On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 18:44 -0400, Abhishek Koneru wrote:
> > Please review the patch with fix for ticket 219 in Dog Tag 10 Beta.
> > 
> > --Abhishek Koneru
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