[7u6] Request for approval for 7168191: Signature validation can fail under certain circumstances

[Seán Coffey]

Approved.

On 19/06/2012 21:00, Vincent Ryan wrote:
>
> Please approve the following P2 fix for 7u6:
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vinnie/7168191/webrev.01
>
> The bug report is at:
>    http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7168191
>
> The fix is currently being reviewed by Sean Mullan and the OpenJDK
> security-dev email list.
>
> The fix is not yet in JDK 8 because the code bases are significantly
> different due to a major enhancement to the certificate path validation
> code which has recently been integrated into JDK 8.
>
> I intend to forward-port this fix to JDK 8 following the integration
> of this changeset into 7u6.
>
> Thanks.