Mangled certificate
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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.
(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+
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: e56271c144a9c8f
CheckboxSystem: 7e42599bda39ea7
Date: Thu Nov 18 21:52:21 2010
ProcEnviron:
LC_TIME=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Hello Jeroen,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with Thunderbird.
You made this bug report in 2010 and there have been several versions of Ubuntu and Thunderbird since then.
Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
Or, if it is still a problem, could you run the following (only once):
apport-collect 677030
and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.
Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Thunderbird better.
G