Bug 2083274

Summary:	Specifying the openssl config file explicitly causes provider initialisation to fail in FIPS mode
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Alicja Kario <hkario>
Component:	openssl	Assignee:	Dmitry Belyavskiy <dbelyavs>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Alicja Kario <hkario>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	9.0	CC:	cllang, dbelyavs, kanderso, ssorce
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Triaged, ZStream
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Fixed In Version:	openssl-3.0.1-29.el9	Doc Type:	No Doc Update
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Clones:	2085500 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2023-06-05 15:56:12 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	2085500

Description Alicja Kario 2022-05-09 15:21:43 UTC

Description of problem:
When openssl is used with explicitly specified config file in FIPS mode, the provider loading fails

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
openssl-3.0.1-27.el9

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. openssl genpkey -algorithm rsa -out cakey.pem
2. openssl req -config /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf -passout pass:securepass -new -x509 -days 3650 -extensions v3_ca -keyout cakey.pem -out cacert.pem             -subj "/C=XX/ST=mystate/L=mytown/O=myorganisation/OU=myou/CN=myname/emailAddress=myemail/"

Actual results:
005C9966037F0000:error:0700006D:configuration file routines:module_run:module initialization error:crypto/conf/conf_mod.c:243:module=providers, value=provider_sect retcode=-1

Expected results:
CSR created

Additional info:

Comment 4 Dmitry Belyavskiy 2022-05-13 14:10:10 UTC

*** Bug 2085401 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Clemens Lang 2023-06-05 15:56:12 UTC

RHEL 9.1 contains openssl-3.0.1-43.el9_0.