Bug #29841 OpenSSL-server will not allow YaSSL-clients without certificate
Submitted: 17 Jul 2007 9:20 Modified: 23 Jun 2015 6:08
Reporter: Domas Mituzas Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: General Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.0-bk, 5.1-bk OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: openssl, SSL, yassl

[17 Jul 2007 9:20] Domas Mituzas
Description:
Offspring from Bug#29753

Even if no grants require client certificate, OpenSSL'ish SSL support in MySQL will reject connections from clients with no certificate:

$ mysql --ssl-ca=...

T@5    : | | <vio_init
T@5    : | | info: ssl: 0x350e170  timeout: 5
T@5    : | | error: SSL_accept failure
T@5    : | | >report_errors
T@5    : | | | error: OpenSSL: error:140890E9:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE:tls peer did not respond with certificate list:s3_srvr.c:1930:

T@5    : | | | error: error: error:00000005:lib(0):func(0):DH lib
T@5    : | | | info: socket_errno: 0
T@5    : | | <report_errors

This is opposite from YaSSL, which allows such connections, unless key requirements are set in GRANT statement.

How to repeat:
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Suggested fix:
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[17 Jul 2007 9:31] Domas Mituzas
apparently that happens when connecting with YaSSL client. OpenSSL client without certificates works.
[7 Jan 2009 14:02] Piotr Czachur
I can confirm that.

Server ( 5.0.68-log) compiled with openssl.

Client (compiled with openssl):
mysql -u slave -h foobar -p --ssl-ca=/dev/null
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.
Your MySQL connection id is 14
...

Client (compiled with yassl):
mysql -u slave -h foobar -p --ssl-ca=/dev/null
Enter password:
ERROR 2026 (HY000): SSL connection error

Simply wrong.

What I want to add is that debugging of SSL connection errors in MySQL is damn hard.
[28 Feb 2012 14:41] Honza Horak
Related to #40141 (maybe duplicate).
[26 Apr 2012 19:53] Sveta Smirnova
Bug #40141, which has patch attached, has marked as duplicate of this one.
[28 Jan 2014 0:25] Roel Van de Paar
Any updates on this 2007 community bug?
[28 Jan 2014 0:26] Roel Van de Paar
Expect 5.5 and 5.6 to be affected also?
[23 Jun 2015 6:08] Murthy Sidagam
Fixed as part of Bug #68788
Version Fixed:	mysql-5.5.37
[23 Jun 2015 6:10] Murthy Sidagam
Fixed in mysql-5.6.17