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Bug 1294606 - certutil fails to merge SQL databases after modifying trust in a certificate
Summary: certutil fails to merge SQL databases after modifying trust in a certificate
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: nss-util
Version: 6.7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Bob Relyea
QA Contact: Alicja Kario
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 1269194 1294607 1343211
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Reported: 2015-12-29 08:58 UTC by Pavel Moravec
Modified: 2020-05-14 15:04 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: nss-3.27.1-3.el6
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Clone Of:
: 1294607 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2017-03-21 10:25:57 UTC
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Mozilla Foundation 1282627 0 None None None 2016-08-17 18:20:20 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2017:0671 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE nspr and nss bug fix update 2017-03-21 12:35:29 UTC

Description Pavel Moravec 2015-12-29 08:58:14 UTC 
Description of problem:
Having sql database with a certificate that has modified a trust attribute and trying to merge this db with another one, it fails with error:

certutil: Could not merge object unnamed (type Trust): Unknown code ___P 3


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nss-tools-3.19.1-3.el6_6.x86_64


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
rm -rf db1 db2
mkdir db1
echo 123456 > db1/pwdfile
certutil -N -d sql:./db1 -f ./db1/pwdfile
certutil -A -d sql:./db1 -i test.crt -n test -t P,, -f ./db1/pwdfile
certutil -M -d sql:./db1 -n test -t T,, -f ./db1/pwdfile

mkdir db2
echo 123456 > db2/pwdfile
certutil -N -d sql:./db2 -f ./db2/pwdfile

certutil --merge -d sql:./db2  --source-dir sql:./db1 -f ./db2/pwdfile -@ ./db1/pwdfile


Actual results:
certutil --merge fails with:
certutil: Could not merge object unnamed (type Trust): Unknown code ___P 3


Expected results:
certutil --merge works well


Additional info:
commenting out "certutil -M" or replacing it by deletion and re-creating test's certificate prevents this bug. I.e. the problem originates in certutil modifying the trust attributes. Therefore either:
- this "-M" operation is the buggy one, 
- or at least it leaves the sql database in such (valid) state that --merge operation cant cope with
Comment 11 Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2016-10-27 19:12:57 UTC 
This package was reported against the nss-util package, but the fix modified the nss package (not nss-util).
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-21 10:25:57 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2017-0671.html
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