[2.7] bpo-35925: Skip SSL tests that fail due to weak external certs or old TLS (GH-13124) (GH-13253)

Modern Linux distros such as Debian Buster have default OpenSSL system
configurations that reject connections to servers with weak certificates
by default. This causes our test suite run with external networking
resources enabled to skip these tests when they encounter such a
failure.

Fixing the network servers is a separate issue.
(cherry picked from commit 2cc0223)

Changes to test_ssl.py required as 2.7 has legacy protocol tests.

The test_httplib.py change is omitted from this backport as
self-signed.pythontest.net's certificate was updated and the
test_nntplib.py change is not applicable on 2.7.

Authored-by: Gregory P. Smith [email protected]

Author: gpshead

Lib/test/test_ssl.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import traceback
 import weakref
 import platform
+import re
 import functools
 from contextlib import closing
 
@@ -159,6 +160,36 @@ def f(*args, **kwargs):
     else:
         return func
 
+def skip_if_openssl_cnf_minprotocol_gt_tls1(func):
+    """Skip a test if the OpenSSL config MinProtocol is > TLSv1.
+    OS distros with an /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf and MinProtocol set often do so to
+    require TLSv1.2 or higher (Debian Buster).  Some of our tests for older
+    protocol versions will fail under such a config.
+    Alternative workaround: Run this test in a process with
+    OPENSSL_CONF=/dev/null in the environment.
+    """
+    @functools.wraps(func)
+    def f(*args, **kwargs):
+        openssl_cnf = os.environ.get("OPENSSL_CONF", "/etc/ssl/openssl.cnf")
+        try:
+            with open(openssl_cnf, "r") as config:
+                for line in config:
+                    match = re.match(r"MinProtocol\s*=\s*(TLSv\d+\S*)", line)
+                    if match:
+                        tls_ver = match.group(1)
+                        if tls_ver > "TLSv1":
+                            raise unittest.SkipTest(
+                                "%s has MinProtocol = %s which is > TLSv1." %
+                                (openssl_cnf, tls_ver))
+        except (EnvironmentError, UnicodeDecodeError) as err:
+            # no config file found, etc.
+            if support.verbose:
+                sys.stdout.write("\n Could not scan %s for MinProtocol: %s\n"
+                                 % (openssl_cnf, err))
+        return func(*args, **kwargs)
+    return f
+
+
 needs_sni = unittest.skipUnless(ssl.HAS_SNI, "SNI support needed for this test")
 
 
@@ -2351,6 +2382,7 @@ def test_protocol_sslv2(self):
                                client_options=ssl.OP_NO_TLSv1)
 
         @skip_if_broken_ubuntu_ssl
+        @skip_if_openssl_cnf_minprotocol_gt_tls1
         def test_protocol_sslv23(self):
             """Connecting to an SSLv23 server with various client options"""
             if support.verbose:
@@ -2428,6 +2460,7 @@ def test_protocol_tlsv1(self):
         @skip_if_broken_ubuntu_ssl
         @unittest.skipUnless(hasattr(ssl, "PROTOCOL_TLSv1_1"),
                              "TLS version 1.1 not supported.")
+        @skip_if_openssl_cnf_minprotocol_gt_tls1
         def test_protocol_tlsv1_1(self):
             """Connecting to a TLSv1.1 server with various client options.
                Testing against older TLS versions."""

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-05-06-18-29-54.bpo-35925.gwQPuC.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Skip specific nntplib and ssl networking tests when they would otherwise fail due to a modern OS or distro with a default OpenSSL policy of rejecting connections to servers with weak certificates or disabling TLS below TLSv1.2.