ca-certificates-java: convert PKCS12 cacerts keystore to JKS

Bug #1771363 reported by Tiago Stürmer Daitx
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ca-certificates-java (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
ca-certificates-java (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
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Bionic
Fix Released
High
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Bug Description

[Impact]
Any user already affected by the issue described in bug 1739631 won't benefit from the fix as that fix only prevents the issue from happening in new installs.

[Cause]
Same as described in bug 1739631 and copied here.

The ca-certificate-java version 20170930 (or earlier) used the default keystore to create /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts - if the file already existed its contents were just updated without changing the keystore
type.

From openjdk-9 upwards the default keystore type changed from 'jks' to 'pkcs12' [1] by means of JEP 229 [2]. A JKS keystore can be read without supplying a password (or by supplying an empty one) while a PKCS12 keystore requires a password to be set.

Thus a /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts created in the pkcs12 format will fail to be loaded as, by default, the truststore password is empty - in order to avoid that the user must set -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=<passwd> or define it in /etc/java-XX-openjdk/management/management.properties. A JKS keystore will work normally, as the certificates in it can be ready when the truststore password is empty.

Ubuntu does *not* set the javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword by default
thus any user that got a cacerts generated in JKCS12 won't be able
to use any secure connections from java.

[Test Case]
Start on a new bionic install/chroot without openjdk

1. Install openjdk-11
$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-11-jdk

2. Test the keystore with an empty password (optional) and make sure it is a PKCS12
$ keytool -list -cacerts
Enter keystore password: <leave empty>
***************** WARNING WARNING WARNING *****************
* The integrity of the information stored in your keystore *
* has NOT been verified! In order to verify its integrity, *
* you must provide your keystore password. *
***************** WARNING WARNING WARNING *****************
Keystore type: PKCS12
Keystore provider: SUN
Your keystore contains 0 entries

3. Test with the "changeit" password
$ keytool -list -cacerts
Enter keystore password: changeit
Keystore type: PKCS12
Keystore provider: SUN
Your keystore contains 133 entries
<snipped various certs>

4. Create the java test file
$ cat <<EOF >HttpsTester.java
import java.net.URL;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
public class HttpsTester {
public static void main(String[] args) throws java.io.IOException {
HttpsURLConnection connection = (HttpsURLConnection) new URL("https://www.ubuntu.com").openConnection();
System.out.println("Response code: " + connection.getResponseCode());
System.out.println("It worked!");
}
}
EOF

5. Compile it
$ javac HttpsTester.java

6. Call it
$ /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java HttpsTester

7. Call it again, this time set the store password
$ /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java \
  -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=changeit HttpsTester
Response code: 200
It worked!

8. Install the newer ca-certificates-java 20180516, it should
migrate cacerts from PKCS12 to JKS. Check that by running step #2
again
$ keytool -list -cacerts
Enter keystore password: <leave empty>
***************** WARNING WARNING WARNING *****************
* The integrity of the information stored in your keystore *
* has NOT been verified! In order to verify its integrity, *
* you must provide your keystore password. *
***************** WARNING WARNING WARNING *****************
Keystore type: JKS
Keystore provider: SUN
Your keystore contains 133 entries
<snipped various certs>

9. The old keystore should be saved in
/etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts.dpkg-old, test it exists:
$ keytool -list -keystore /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts.dpkg-old
Enter keystore password: <leave empty>
***************** WARNING WARNING WARNING *****************
* The integrity of the information stored in your keystore *
* has NOT been verified! In order to verify its integrity, *
* you must provide your keystore password. *
***************** WARNING WARNING WARNING *****************
Keystore type: PKCS12
Keystore provider: SUN
Your keystore contains 0 entries

[Regression Potential]
* If a user has manually set his own JKCS12 cacerts and didn't update
/etc/default/cacerts to set "cacerts_updates=no" (from the default
of "cacerts_updates=yes") then his custom cacerts will be converted and overwritten. Still, a copy from the previous cacert is kept at
/etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts.dpkg-old.

[Other Info]
The cacerts keystore fix is related to 2 bugs:
1) bug #1739631, fixed by ca-certificates-java-20180413, which changed the default keystore type generated by ca-certificates-java to JKS

[References]
[1] The default keystore is defined by the keystore.type in the
/etc/java-XX-openjdk/security/java.security file.
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/jdk9u/jdk/annotate/46bd35a597eb/src/java.base/share/conf/security/java.security#l186

[2] JEP 229: Create PKCS12 Keystores by Default
http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/229

[Original bug description]
The fix for Debian #894979 and Ubuntu bug #1739631 which updated ca-certificates-java to generate
JKS keystores by default - instead OpenJDK's 9+ default of PKCS12 - only fixes new installs.

Any user already affected by that issue won't benefit from the fix, as the file /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts is at most updated by the jks-keystore hook. The only way to actually change it from the PKCS12 to the JKS format is to remove the cacerts file and then calling
'update-ca-certificates -f' - which is also accomplished by removing and then reinstalling the ca-certificates-java package.

Revision history for this message
Tiago Stürmer Daitx (tdaitx) wrote :

The attached patch fixes this behavior by:
1) Detecting if a PKCS12 cacert exists
2) Converting it to JKS and saving it to cacerts.dpkg-new

Finally, if, and only if, 'cacerts_updates' is set to 'yes':
3) Moving the old PKCS12 cacerts to a cacerts.dpkg-old and the dpkg-new into /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts.

Additionally, this the proposed debdiff also takes care of only setting JAVA_HOME if a jvm is found. Previously if none of the the jvms in the list were found the last one jvm was used - although that didn't cause any unexpected errors, it was wrong.

tags: added: bionic cosmic patch
Changed in ca-certificates-java (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ca-certificates-java (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in ca-certificates-java (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in ca-certificates-java (Ubuntu Bionic):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
Changed in ca-certificates-java (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in ca-certificates-java (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in ca-certificates-java (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ca-certificates-java - 20180516ubuntu1

---------------
ca-certificates-java (20180516ubuntu1) cosmic; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #1771815). Remaining changes:
    - debian/control: Bump javahelper build dependency.
    - debian/rules:
      + Explicitly depend on openjdk-11-jre-headless, needed to configure.
      + Replace javac arguments '-source 1.7 -target 1.7' with '--release 7'
        as, per JEP-247, it also takes care of setting the right -bootclasspath
        argument.

ca-certificates-java (20180516) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload.

  [ Tiago Stürmer Daitx ]
  * debian/jks-keystore.hook.in: don't create a jvm-*.cfg file, a default file
    with the right configuration is already supplied by the openjdk packages.
  * debian/jks-keystore.hook.in, debian/postinst.in: Only export JAVA_HOME
    and update PATH if a known jvm was found.
  * debian/postinst.in: Detect PKCS12 cacert keystore generated by
    previous ca-certificates-java and convert them to JKS. (Closes: #898678)
    (LP: #1771363)

  [ Matthias Klose ]
  * debian/rules: Explicitly depend on openjdk-11-jre-headless, needed to
    configure.

  [ Emmanuel Bourg ]
  * Use salsa.debian.org Vcs-* URLs

 -- Tiago Stürmer Daitx <email address hidden> Thu, 17 May 2018 13:03:29 +0000

Changed in ca-certificates-java (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Tiago, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ca-certificates-java into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ca-certificates-java/20180516ubuntu1~18.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in ca-certificates-java (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
tags: added: verification-done-bionic
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
Revision history for this message
Tiago Stürmer Daitx (tdaitx) wrote :

Using the tested I confirm that a previous PKCS12 keystore cacerts was successfully converted to a JKS format. Other users reported the same in bug 1770553.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ca-certificates-java - 20180516ubuntu1~18.04.1

---------------
ca-certificates-java (20180516ubuntu1~18.04.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Backport from Cosmic. (LP: #1770553)

ca-certificates-java (20180516ubuntu1) cosmic; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #1771815). Remaining changes:
    - debian/control: Bump javahelper build dependency.
    - debian/rules:
      + Explicitly depend on openjdk-11-jre-headless, needed to configure.
      + Replace javac arguments '-source 1.7 -target 1.7' with '--release 7'
        as, per JEP-247, it also takes care of setting the right -bootclasspath
        argument.

ca-certificates-java (20180516) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload.

  [ Tiago Stürmer Daitx ]
  * debian/jks-keystore.hook.in: don't create a jvm-*.cfg file, a default file
    with the right configuration is already supplied by the openjdk packages.
  * debian/jks-keystore.hook.in, debian/postinst.in: Only export JAVA_HOME
    and update PATH if a known jvm was found.
  * debian/postinst.in: Detect PKCS12 cacert keystore generated by
    previous ca-certificates-java and convert them to JKS. (Closes: #898678)
    (LP: #1771363)

  [ Matthias Klose ]
  * debian/rules: Explicitly depend on openjdk-11-jre-headless, needed to
    configure.

  [ Emmanuel Bourg ]
  * Use salsa.debian.org Vcs-* URLs

ca-certificates-java (20180413ubuntu1) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * Merge from debian unstable. Remaining changes: (LP: #1769013,
    LP: #1739631)
    + debian/control: Bump javahelper build dependency.
    + debian/rules:
      - Explicitly depend on openjdk-11-jre-headless, needed to configure.
      - Replace javac arguments '-source 1.7 -target 1.7' with '--release 7'
        as, per JEP-247, it also takes care of setting the right -bootclasspath
        argument.
  * debian/jks-keystore.hook.in: don't create a jvm-*.cfg file, a default file
    with the right configuration is already supplied by the openjdk packages.

ca-certificates-java (20180413) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload.
  * Always generate a JKS keystore instead of using the default format
    (Closes: #894979)
  * Look for Java 10 and Java 11 when detecting the JRE
  * Removed Damien Raude-Morvan from the uploaders (Closes: #889412)
  * Standards-Version updated to 4.1.4
  * Switch to debhelper level 11

 -- Tiago Stürmer Daitx <email address hidden> Thu, 17 May 2018 14:10:59 +0000

Changed in ca-certificates-java (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for ca-certificates-java has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

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