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Bug 839280

Summary: ntpd segfaults in FIPS mode (md5 not available)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Milan Broz <mbroz>
Component: ntpAssignee: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Jan Ščotka <jscotka>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
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Version: 7.0CC: jscotka, omoris, pvrabec
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Fixed In Version: ntp-4.2.6p5-5 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 10:07:52 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Milan Broz 2012-07-11 12:55:12 UTC
Description of problem:
When running in fips mode (fips=1) ntpd crashes on startup.

This is backtrace, apparently it tries to use MD5 which is not available in FIPS mode (and does not properly detect context init error).

[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `ntpd -n'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
#1  0x00007ff3212f0441 in addr2refid (addr=addr@entry=0x7ff322cc007c) at a_md5encrypt.c:105
#2  0x00007ff32129097d in add_interface (ep=ep@entry=0x7ff322cc0060) at ntp_io.c:939
#3  0x00007ff3212938c0 in create_wildcards (port=123) at ntp_io.c:1265
#4  create_sockets (port=<optimized out>) at ntp_io.c:2070
#5  io_open_sockets () at ntp_io.c:562
#6  0x00007ff32128bf80 in config_ntpd (ptree=0x7ff322cbfe00) at ntp_config.c:3729
#7  save_and_apply_config_tree () at ntp_config.c:3997
#8  0x00007ff32128f91b in getconfig (argc=argc@entry=0, argv=argv@entry=0x7fffd3071758) at ntp_config.c:3915
#9  0x00007ff321298f92 in ntpdmain (argc=0, argv=0x7fffd3071758) at ntpd.c:863
#10 0x00007ff3212899b9 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at ntpd.c:354
(gdb) frame 1
#1  0x00007ff3212f0441 in addr2refid (addr=addr@entry=0x7ff322cc007c) at a_md5encrypt.c:105
105             EVP_DigestUpdate(&ctx, (u_char *)PSOCK_ADDR6(addr),
(gdb) list
100             if (IS_IPV4(addr))
101                     return (NSRCADR(addr));
102
103             INIT_SSL();
104             EVP_DigestInit(&ctx, EVP_get_digestbynid(NID_md5));
105             EVP_DigestUpdate(&ctx, (u_char *)PSOCK_ADDR6(addr),
106                 sizeof(struct in6_addr));
107             EVP_DigestFinal(&ctx, digest, &len);
108             memcpy(&addr_refid, digest, 4);
109             return (addr_refid);
(gdb) p ctx
$1 = {digest = 0x0, engine = 0x0, flags = 0, md_data = 0x0, pctx = 0x0, update = 0x0}


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Above is reported on rawhide ntp-4.2.6p5-2.fc18.x86_64
(but because ntp is in RHEL7 as well, we need to track this problem...)

How reproducible:
boot in fips mode and just start default config
(fips mode is currently broken - I'll update the bug once patches reach upstream:)

Comment 4 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 10:07:52 UTC
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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