Should SSLEngine throw SSLHandhakeException?

Florian Weimer fweimer at redhat.com
Tue Aug 4 18:06:56 UTC 2015


If the SSLEngine client receives a fatal alert, an exception for
Alerts.alert_unexpected_message is generated, which is an SSLException,
not for the alert received, which would be an SSLHandhsakeException.

Is this intentional?  If not, the attached patch fixes that.

I see this when the client receives an inappropriate_fallback alert with
my TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV patch, but I can't see a reason why the behavior
for other alerts would be different.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security
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