[krbdev.mit.edu #8544] Wrong PKCS11 PIN can trigger PKINIT draft9 code

Greg Hudson via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Tue Feb 7 14:12:34 EST 2017


This issue doesn't manifest if C_Login() fails with the wrong PIN, 
because that failure will be remembered in the identity_prompt_retval 
field of the pkinit_req_context structure, and pkinit_client_process() 
on the draft9 padata type will give up before prompting again.  This 
makes it hard to reproduce the issue in t_pkinit.py using soft-pkcs11.

In the failing scenario, C_Login() succeeds, but C_Sign() later fails.  
I'm not quite sure what the draft9 code path is that results in another 
prompt, since identity_prompted should be true at that point.


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