[Bug 1928648] Autopkgtest regression report (gnutls28/3.4.10-4ubuntu1.9)

Wed Sep 15 01:04:52 UTC 2021

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted gnutls28 (3.4.10-4ubuntu1.9) for xenial have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

network-manager/1.2.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.3 (arm64, ppc64el)
systemd/229-4ubuntu21.31 (amd64)
ffmpeg/7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1 (armhf)
lxc/2.0.11-0ubuntu1~16.04.3 (i386, s390x, amd64, arm64, ppc64el)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-
migration/xenial/update_excuses.html#gnutls28

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

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Title:
  expiring trust anchor compatibility issue

Status in gnutls28 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gnutls28 source package in Precise:
  Won't Fix
Status in gnutls28 source package in Trusty:
  Confirmed
Status in gnutls28 source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in gnutls28 source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * gnutls28 fails to talk to letsencrypt website past September 2021,
  despite trusting the letsencrypt root certificate.

  [Test Plan]

   * Import staging cert equivalent to ISRG Root X1
  https://letsencrypt.org/certs/staging/letsencrypt-stg-root-x1.pem

   * Import expired staging cert equivalen tto DST Root CA X3
  https://letsencrypt.org/certs/staging/letsencrypt-stg-root-dst.pem

   * Test connectivity to the expired-root-ca test website
  https://expired-root-ca-test.germancoding.com

  setup:

  apt install wget gnutls-bin
  wget https://letsencrypt.org/certs/staging/letsencrypt-stg-root-x1.pem
  wget https://letsencrypt.org/certs/staging/letsencrypt-stg-root-dst.pem
  cat letsencrypt-stg-root-x1.pem letsencrypt-stg-root-dst.pem >> ca.pem

  test case:
  gnutls-cli --x509cafile=ca.pem expired-root-ca-test.germancoding.com

  bad result:
  - Status: The certificate is NOT trusted. The certificate chain uses expired certificate.
  *** PKI verification of server certificate failed...
  *** Fatal error: Error in the certificate.
  *** handshake has failed: Error in the certificate.

  good result:
  - Status: The certificate is trusted.
  - Description: (TLS1.3-X.509)-(ECDHE-SECP256R1)-(RSA-PSS-RSAE-SHA256)-(AES-256-GCM)
  - Session ID: A8:2B:AF:85:54:64:3A:79:81:99:16:D4:6D:9A:FC:30:F1:EC:49:A4:09:A9:0C:31:37:38:C2:0E:73:C7:C9:04
  - Options: OCSP status request,
  - Handshake was completed

  Connection should be successful and trusted with correctly working
  gnutls client that can manage to ignore expired CA, and build a valid
  trust path using non-expired CA in the chain.

  [Where problems could occur]

   * Changes as to how the trust paths are built in TLS connection may
  result in introducing bugs (failure to connect to valid sites) and/or
  security vulnerabilities (connecting to invalid sites successfully).

  [Other Info]

   * Background info
   * The current chain from letsencrypt is expiring, they are adding a new chain, but also keeping the expiring one. This will result in connectivity issues when using old gnutls/openssl against websites using the default letsencrypt configuration after September 2021.

  https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/openssl-client-compatibility-changes-for-let-s-encrypt-certificates/143816
  https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/questions-re-openssl-client-compatibility-changes-for-let-s-encrypt-certificates/143817

  Currently gnutls28 in bionic and earlier will not establish a
  connection, if any parts of the trust chain have expired, even though
  alternative non-expired chains are available.

  This has been fixed in GnuTLS 3.6.14, but probably should be
  backported to bionic and earlier if it was not already been done so.

  https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1008

  https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1271

  Openssl bug report for this issue is
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl/+bug/1928989

  Bionic packages available from https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-
  service/+archive/ubuntu/4661

  Xenial packages available from https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-
  service/+archive/ubuntu/4663

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