Bug 2099651 - After updating nettle gnutls_certificate_allocate_credentials fails
Summary: After updating nettle gnutls_certificate_allocate_credentials fails
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnutls
Version: 36
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Crypto Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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: 2100400 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-06-21 12:23 UTC by Matej Marušák
Modified: 2022-07-07 06:53 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version: gnutls-3.7.6-3.fc36
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Last Closed: 2022-06-24 00:58:43 UTC
Type: Bug
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Red Hat Issue Tracker FC-484 0 None None None 2022-06-21 12:30:33 UTC

Description Matej Marušák 2022-06-21 12:23:11 UTC
Description of problem:

In our CI we have noticed that when we update nettle one of our libraries fails.

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

Update nettle to 3.8-1.fc36 

How reproducible:

  gnutls_certificate_credentials_t creds = NULL;                                
                                                                                
  int r = gnutls_certificate_allocate_credentials (&creds);                     
  assert (r == GNUTLS_E_SUCCESS);

The assert fails.

Comment 1 Daiki Ueno 2022-06-21 12:37:01 UTC
Could you provide a complete reproducer? I cannot reproduce the issue with:

[root@164e77eefd44 ~]# rpm -qa nettle gnutls
nettle-3.8-1.fc36.x86_64
gnutls-3.7.6-1.fc36.x86_64
[root@164e77eefd44 ~]# cat test.c
#include <gnutls/gnutls.h>
#include <assert.h>

int main (void) {
	gnutls_certificate_credentials_t creds = NULL;
	int r = gnutls_certificate_allocate_credentials(&creds);
	assert(r == GNUTLS_E_SUCCESS);
	return 0;
}
[root@164e77eefd44 ~]# gcc -o test test.c `pkg-config gnutls --cflags --libs`
[root@164e77eefd44 ~]# ./test ; echo $?
0

Comment 2 Martin Pitt 2022-06-21 12:58:23 UTC
Matej: This failure happens in our crypto-policies tests -- possibly you need to set a particular policy, or even enable FIPS?

Comment 3 Daiki Ueno 2022-06-21 13:53:38 UTC
> This failure happens in our crypto-policies tests -- possibly you need to set a particular policy, or even enable FIPS?

That sounds plausible; while gnutls_certificate_allocate_credentials merely calls out malloc/calloc functions, it can return error if the library is already in an unusable state, e.g., when FIPS self-tests are failed. In any case it would be helpful to collect debug logs with GNUTLS_DEBUG_LEVEL as described in:
https://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Debugging-and-auditing.html#Debugging-and-auditing

Comment 4 Daiki Ueno 2022-06-21 14:03:44 UTC
Ah, I think I found the cause: gnutls recently switched the FIPS library integrity calculation to including all dependent libraries (including nettle), which is stored at: /usr/lib64/.gnutls.hmac:
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1338

After installing a newer nettle (or gmp), without updating the file there will be a mismatch.  I don't think we have a proper way to fix it other than rebuilding gnutls, but a workaround would be to set the GNUTLS_SKIP_FIPS_INTEGRITY_CHECKS envvar to 1.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2022-06-22 01:17:25 UTC
FEDORA-2022-b5e4fe1515 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 36. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-b5e4fe1515

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2022-06-23 01:19:09 UTC
FEDORA-2022-b5e4fe1515 has been pushed to the Fedora 36 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2022-b5e4fe1515`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-b5e4fe1515

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 7 Daiki Ueno 2022-06-23 10:31:38 UTC
*** Bug 2100400 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Andreas Schneider 2022-06-23 10:50:37 UTC
Can't you create gating tests for nettle, gnutls etc. which just executes

GNUTLS_FORCE_FIPS_MODE=1 certtool


Then you would detect issues earlier ...

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2022-06-24 00:58:43 UTC
FEDORA-2022-b5e4fe1515 has been pushed to the Fedora 36 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Matej Marušák 2022-07-07 06:53:58 UTC
Indeed it was in FIPS mode. Just removing mine needsinfo. Thank you for fixing it!


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