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Bug #23054

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Oracle Linux 8 agent segfaults on FIPS system

Added by Nicolas CHARLES over 1 year ago. Updated 7 months ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
N/A
Assignee:
-
Category:
Agent
Target version:
Severity:
Critical - prevents main use of Rudder | no workaround | data loss | security
UX impact:
User visibility:
Effort required:
Priority:
0
Name check:
To do
Fix check:
To do
Regression:
No

Description

On Oracle Linux 8 on a FIPS system (STIG installation or something like that), the rudder agent fails with segfault during policy update
The same rules on an Oracle Linux 9 does not break the rudder agent

Update:

- the problem is that FIPS forbids MD5 and that CFEngine uses MD5 to create the node identifier (by key pinning)
- in Oracle 8 we use the system openssl while in Oracle 9 we embed one, so that's why there's a difference in observed behavior

- the workaround would be to also embed openssl in Oracle 8
- the correction is to make CFEngine able to use both MD5 (for compat and migration) and SHA2.

Actions #1

Updated by Nicolas CHARLES over 1 year ago

  • Description updated (diff)
Actions #2

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 1 year ago

  • Target version changed from 7.3.4 to 7.3.5
Actions #3

Updated by François ARMAND over 1 year ago

  • Description updated (diff)
Actions #4

Updated by Alexis Mousset over 1 year ago

  • Target version changed from 7.3.5 to 7.3.6
Actions #5

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ about 1 year ago

  • Target version changed from 7.3.6 to 7.3.7
Actions #6

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ about 1 year ago

  • Target version changed from 7.3.7 to 7.3.8
Actions #7

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ about 1 year ago

  • Target version changed from 7.3.8 to 7.3.9
Actions #8

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ about 1 year ago

  • Target version changed from 7.3.9 to 7.3.10
Actions #9

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ 12 months ago

  • Target version changed from 7.3.10 to 7.3.11
Actions #10

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ 10 months ago

  • Target version changed from 7.3.11 to 7.3.12
Actions #11

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ 9 months ago

  • Target version changed from 7.3.12 to 7.3.13
Actions #12

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ 9 months ago

  • Target version changed from 7.3.13 to 7.3.14
Actions #13

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ 7 months ago

  • Target version changed from 7.3.14 to 7.3.15
Actions #14

Updated by Alexis Mousset 7 months ago

  • Status changed from New to Resolved

We have developped a workaround with OMNI packages, closing.

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