Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] "Certificate chain incomplete" in 45.1.0

2016-06-28 Thread Sebastian Metzger

Hello Zach,

I agree to James. Maybee the 45.2.0 firefoxes had luckily downloaded the 
needed intermidiate at the time you tried to open your web page.


Do you know which CA is missing?
Than you could check if this CA is "Builtin Object Token" or a 
downloaded "Software Security Module" (not sure about the correct 
english name) in 45.2.0.


>Nothing jumps out at me from the main or security release notes as to 
>why there should be any difference.
The CAs included in firefox (or more specific in the NSS) are changing 
in nearly every release.

But, they are not stated in the normal release notes.

You can track the changes here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/NSS:Release_Versions

Best regards

Sebastian Metzger

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Am 29.06.2016 um 04:39 schrieb James Andrewartha:

On 29/06/16 05:43, Schuetz, Zach wrote:

One of our web applications is reachable from most browsers, including
current ESR 45.2.0. However, 45.1.0 (currently deployed in a few places)
gives an SSL error, saying the security chain is incomplete. Nothing
jumps out at me from the main or security release notes as to why there
should be any difference.

Now, the obvious answer is to tweak the security (already working with
our server team) and update Firefox everywhere, but why did this happen
in the first place, and is there any way for me to know if it’s likely
to happen again?


I believe that Firefox will cache intermediate certificates, so if you
visit a correctly-configured HTTPS site that uses the same chain, visits
to a incorrectly-configured site will work.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733232
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629558
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399324
http://superuser.com/questions/351516/do-intermediate-certificates-get-cached-in-firefox



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Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] "Certificate chain incomplete" in 45.1.0

2016-06-28 Thread James Andrewartha
On 29/06/16 05:43, Schuetz, Zach wrote:
> One of our web applications is reachable from most browsers, including
> current ESR 45.2.0. However, 45.1.0 (currently deployed in a few places)
> gives an SSL error, saying the security chain is incomplete. Nothing
> jumps out at me from the main or security release notes as to why there
> should be any difference.
>  
> Now, the obvious answer is to tweak the security (already working with
> our server team) and update Firefox everywhere, but why did this happen
> in the first place, and is there any way for me to know if it’s likely
> to happen again?

I believe that Firefox will cache intermediate certificates, so if you
visit a correctly-configured HTTPS site that uses the same chain, visits
to a incorrectly-configured site will work.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733232
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629558
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399324
http://superuser.com/questions/351516/do-intermediate-certificates-get-cached-in-firefox

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[Mozilla Enterprise] "Certificate chain incomplete" in 45.1.0

2016-06-28 Thread Schuetz, Zach
Hi folks,

One of our web applications is reachable from most browsers, including current 
ESR 45.2.0. However, 45.1.0 (currently deployed in a few places) gives an SSL 
error, saying the security chain is incomplete. Nothing jumps out at me from 
the main or security release notes as to why there should be any difference.

Now, the obvious answer is to tweak the security (already working with our 
server team) and update Firefox everywhere, but why did this happen in the 
first place, and is there any way for me to know if it's likely to happen again?

~Zach Schuetz
Middlebury College ITS
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