Created attachment 1185850 [details]
Compiled GetProviders java class

Description of problem:

When we upgraded from JDK 1.7.0_101 to 1.7.0_111 with the same nss version in place, 3.15.4, various calls into the java.security.Security JDK namespace throw errors. After we upgrade to the latest version of nss, though, the problems no longer occur. This suggests that the latest JDK versions should have a minimum requirement on newer versions of nss that do not have this problem.

A similar discussion about this for JDK 8 on Fedora occurred on this ticket in the RedHat Bugzilla took place here - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332456.  Maybe the same sort of fix in packaging could be done to address this issue for CentOS 7.

Note that the Security.getProviders() call is made by common Java packages like the maven and leiningen build tools, among others, so I expect that the problem would be pretty widespread. 

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

java-1.7.0_111

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. (optional) Compile the code below with javac to produce the attached `GetProviders.class` file.

----
import java.security.Provider;
import java.security.Security;

public class GetProviders {
    public static void main (String argv[]) {
       Provider[] providers = Security.getProviders();
       if (providers != null) {
         System.out.println ("Got " + providers.length + " providers");
         for (Provider provider : providers) {
           System.out.println("Provider: " + provider.getName());
         }
       }
    }
}
----

2. Run `yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk`.

3. With `nss` version 3.15.4 installed, run `java GetProviders`.

Actual results:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError
    at sun.security.ec.SunEC.initialize(Native Method)
    at sun.security.ec.SunEC.access$000(SunEC.java:49)
    at sun.security.ec.SunEC$1.run(SunEC.java:61)
    at sun.security.ec.SunEC$1.run(SunEC.java:58)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.security.ec.SunEC.<clinit>(SunEC.java:58)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:383)
    at sun.security.jca.ProviderConfig$2.run(ProviderConfig.java:221)
    at sun.security.jca.ProviderConfig$2.run(ProviderConfig.java:206)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.security.jca.ProviderConfig.doLoadProvider(ProviderConfig.java:206)
    at sun.security.jca.ProviderConfig.getProvider(ProviderConfig.java:187)
    at sun.security.jca.ProviderList.loadAll(ProviderList.java:282)
    at sun.security.jca.ProviderList.removeInvalid(ProviderList.java:299)
    at sun.security.jca.Providers.getFullProviderList(Providers.java:173)
    at java.security.Security.getProviders(Security.java:456)
    at GetProviders.main(GetProviders.java:6)

Expected results:

See output like the following:

Got 9 providers
Provider: SUN
Provider: SunRsaSign
Provider: SunEC
Provider: SunJSSE
Provider: SunJCE
Provider: SunJGSS
Provider: SunSASL
Provider: XMLDSig
Provider: SunPCSC

Additional info:

If the following additional steps are followed, the "expected" results from above are seen:

1. Run `yum upgrade nss`.

nss is upgraded to 3.21.0.

2. Run `java GetProviders`.