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Bug 1174775

Summary: rhn tools fail on sslv3 alert handshake failure in FIPS
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Ondrej Moriš <omoris>
Component: rhn-client-toolsAssignee: Tomáš Kašpárek <tkasparek>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Version: 6.6CC: ebenes, hkario, jhutar
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Description Ondrej Moriš 2014-12-16 13:02:40 UTC
Description of problem:

In FIPS mode, SSLv3 is not allowed. Binaries from rhn-client-tools apparently use ssl.py python library with PROTOCOL_SSLv23 which leads, for instance, to the following errors in FIPS mode:

# rhn_check 
ERROR: SSL errors detected
[('SSL routines', 'SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO', 'sslv3 alert handshake failure')]

# rhn_register 
An error has occurred:
Network error: sslv3 alert handshake failure
See /var/log/up2date for more information

# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager
Network error: sslv3 alert handshake failure

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

rhnsd-4.9.3-2.el6.x86_64
rhn-client-tools-1.0.0.1-18.el6.noarch
rhn-setup-1.0.0.1-18.el6.noarch
rhn-check-1.0.0.1-18.el6.noarch
rhnlib-2.5.22-15.el6.noarch
yum-rhn-plugin-0.9.1-50.el6.noarch

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Setup FIPS mode
   * see https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/solutions/137833,
   * or ask me.

2. Execute, for instance, rhn_register

Actual results:

Tools rhn-* do not work in FIPS, yum-rhn-plugin does not work as well. If yum-rhn-plugin is enabled, yum does not work at all.

Expected results:

All rhn-* tools work in FIPS flawlessly.

Additional info:

* this might be solved by using PROTOCOL_TLSv* in FIPS
* if you need more information about FIPS, feel free to ask
* see also [1]

[1] https://wiki.test.redhat.com/BaseOs/Security/FIPS/TestsExecution

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2015-11-23 14:37:10 UTC
Quality Engineering Management has reviewed and declined this request.
You may appeal this decision by reopening this request.