Bug 836178

Summary: Yum does not work with FIPS 140-2 enabled
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Jan Kaluža <jkaluza>
Component: yumAssignee: James Antill <james.antill>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 5.8CC: ksrot, omoris, sgrubb
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Last Closed: 2012-06-29 18:21:15 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Jan Kaluža 2012-06-28 09:41:30 UTC 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.2.22-39.el5

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable FIPS 140-2
2. run "yum install htop"
  
Actual results:
digest.c(151): OpenSSL internal error, assertion failed: Digest update previous FIPS forbidden algorithm error ignored

Expected results:
Installation works

Additional info:
It's caused by the usage of md5 in the code in following file:
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repoMDObject.py", line 89, in __init__

There's:
 infile = AutoFileChecksums(infile, ['md5', 'sha1', 'sha256'],

But 'md5' should be removed from that line (as it is newer yum versions).
Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2012-06-28 13:39:42 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 2 James Antill 2012-06-29 18:21:15 UTC 
 On RHEL-5 rpm uses md5 to check packages, so doing the above is useless. You can't use yum/rpm on RHEL-5 without md5.
Comment 3 Jan Kaluža 2012-07-02 04:16:53 UTC 
So just to clarify it, yum should not work on RHEL-5 when FIPS 140-2 mode [1] is enabled?

[1] http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140sp/140sp1320.pdf
Comment 4 Steve Grubb 2012-07-05 16:05:52 UTC 
Yum should output a helpful message to the user if it can't work in FIPS mode. They shouldn't have to guess why its not working.