[7u60] Request for phase 2 approval for CR 8028351: JWS doesn't get authenticated when using kerberos auth proxy

Weijun Wang weijun.wang at oracle.com
Thu Dec 5 01:50:19 PST 2013


Hi All

This is a request to backport a jdk8 fix into jdk7u60.

8028351: JWS doesn't get authenticated when using kerberos auth proxy

    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8028351

The bug is about a useless but harmful Kerberos login when no password 
was given to a username, which could lead to account blocking. Several 
customers have reported either on the web or directly to us.

The fix is already included in jdk8 as:

    http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/e1bc55ddf1ad

The review thread was

 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/2013-November/009730.html

The fix for 7uX is at

    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/8028351/7u/webrev.00/

which is almost identical to the fix for jdk8 except for a tiny 
difference in the test.

The fix is low-risk, and isolated. New regression test added. Existing 
tests also run fine.

Thanks
Weijun



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