[Bug 677030] [NEW] Mangled certificate

[Jeroen T. Vermeulen]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: thunderbird

I'm using Thunderbird with multiple mail accounts, using SSL/TLS, on
network connections that aren't always reliable.  Sometimes, very
rarely, Thunderbird gets confused about the certificate for a particular
account.  It will throw up an Add Security Exception to let me
permanently accept an incorrect certificate.

If the server I connect to is at mail.abcdefghi.net port 123, the dialog
shows the server location as bcdefghi.nethi.net:123.  The "Permanently
store this exception" checkbox is checked, and the dialog is all ready
to go.  If I make any change to the server location field, the button to
create a security exception is grayed out—and stays that way even change
the server location back to the way it was.

(Some speculation, probably useless: So it's as if a copy of the
hostname had been slapped over a string buffer but shifted 6 characters
to the left.  That's an odd number, no pun intended.  No idea how it
comes into the pictures, but it would be just enough characters to
accommodate a ":" plus the longest possible port number.)

On a sidenote, in spite of the "legitimate companies won't ask you to do
this" wording, I'd feel safer if I wasn't taken straight to this dialog
when there was a problem!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: thunderbird 3.1.6+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.42-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: e56271c144a9c8f9f675c77e2e4edb56
CheckboxSystem: 7e42599bda39ea7ff8b528272b6ef52b
Date: Thu Nov 18 21:52:21 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird

** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick

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