Note: This bug is displayed in read-only format because
the product is no longer active in Red Hat Bugzilla.
RHEL Engineering is moving the tracking of its product development work on RHEL 6 through RHEL 9 to Red Hat Jira (issues.redhat.com). If you're a Red Hat customer, please continue to file support cases via the Red Hat customer portal. If you're not, please head to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira and file new tickets here. Individual Bugzilla bugs in the statuses "NEW", "ASSIGNED", and "POST" are being migrated throughout September 2023. Bugs of Red Hat partners with an assigned Engineering Partner Manager (EPM) are migrated in late September as per pre-agreed dates. Bugs against components "kernel", "kernel-rt", and "kpatch" are only migrated if still in "NEW" or "ASSIGNED". If you cannot log in to RH Jira, please consult article #7032570. That failing, please send an e-mail to the RH Jira admins at rh-issues@redhat.com to troubleshoot your issue as a user management inquiry. The email creates a ServiceNow ticket with Red Hat. Individual Bugzilla bugs that are migrated will be moved to status "CLOSED", resolution "MIGRATED", and set with "MigratedToJIRA" in "Keywords". The link to the successor Jira issue will be found under "Links", have a little "two-footprint" icon next to it, and direct you to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira (issue links are of type "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-XXXX", where "X" is a digit). This same link will be available in a blue banner at the top of the page informing you that that bug has been migrated.
Previously, when LibreOffice was running in an environment with FIPS kernel mode activated, LibreOffice terminated unexpectedly on encrypting Office Open XML documents. A patch has been applied to load a symmetric key that works when FIPS kernel mode is activated, and the described problem no longer occurs.
Description of problem:
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
- libreoffice-calc-5.3.6.1-10
- nss-3.36.0-5.el7_5
- FIPS mode
- kernel 3.10.0-862.9.1
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot system in FIPS mode
2. Open a new spreadhsheet in Libreoffice-calc
3. Add some random data to a few cells
4. Save as xlsx or ods format, and password protect the document
Actual results:
- crashes in nss code
Expected results:
Additional info:
- reproduced on server and worksation
In RHEL-7 FIPS mode I can reproduce the crash on saving to xlsx with a password set, and the commit referenced above does turn that from a crash to a warning dialog about the inability to use nss to encrypt the document.
I don't see a save to ods problem however.
for the xlxs case the problem is that PK11_ImportSymKey fails and returns null and that's unexpected so libreoffice goes on to crash. I can add the fix that detects PK11_ImportSymKey failure and go on to report inability to save rather than crash, which fixes the crash. Not sure that actually gains the customer a whole pile though, it won't crash, but it won't work either.
upstreaming that as https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/58816/ and committed a backport of that to our package, so xlsx encryption now works under FIPS without a crash
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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3054