Certificate Verification popup hiding buttons

Name: boT120536 Date: 06/17/2001


Merlin Beta JRE with netscape 4.7?

We tried to view the GEONExT-Applet
(http://did.mat.uni-bayreuth.de/geonext/content/geonext/geonextgo.html) with JRE
1.4.0 beta. The applet is singned with an TrustCenter netscape-object-signing
certificate. When the security-dialogbox is popping up the buttons (grant, ...)
are shown for less than a second. Then the text covers the buttons and there is
no chance to press them. Closing the dialogbox by pressing the close button in
the titlebar doesn't grant the applet any rights.

I think the bug is justified as it is reproducable (it was so for me).
Following additional information:

-Applet is signed with CERT from TC-Trustcenter
-Java Plug-In Version 1.4 beta running in Netscape 4.7x Solaris or
Windows
-I encountered the problem only when I was loading the signed applet
from a local filesystem and not with http (attached a tar file with the

applet and geonext.html to start the applet, Root-Cert _1716.der has to
be imported into JRE 1.4 cacerts file first)
-In some circumstances the problem occured after the following exception
was dumped in the Console (the exception does not occur every time so
perhaps it may be a timing problem???)

Loading Root CA certificates from
/home/da94773/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/security/cacerts
/home/da94773/.plugin140.log
java.security.AccessControlException: access denied
(java.util.logging.LoggingPermission control)
        at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:273)
        at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:400)
        at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:545)
        at java.util.logging.LogManager.checkAccess(LogManager.java:762)
        at java.util.logging.Handler.checkAccess(Handler.java:261)
        at java.util.logging.FileHandler.<init>(FileHandler.java:212)
        at sun.plugin.usability.PluginLogger.<clinit>(PluginLogger.java:48)
        at sun.plugin.usability.Trace.securityPrintln(Trace.java:538)
        at sun.plugin.security.RootCACertificateStore.load(RootCACertificateStore.java:58)
        at sun.plugin.security.TrustDecider.isAllPermissionGranted(TrustDecider.java:141)
        at sun.plugin.security.PluginClassLoader.getPermissions(PluginClassLoader.java:115)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.getProtectionDomain(SecureClassLoader.java:144)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:110)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:249)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:57)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:196)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:189)
        at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClassLoader.java:128)
        at sun.plugin.security.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:243)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:304)
        at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(AppletClassLoader.java:108)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:260)
        at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(AppletClassLoader.java:373)
        at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:542)
        at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer.java:1155)
        at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:478)
        at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:293)
        at sun.plugin.navig.motif.MotifAppletViewer.maf_run(MotifAppletViewer.java:127)
        at sun.plugin.navig.motif.MotifAppletViewer.run(MotifAppletViewer.java:123)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:579)
Loaded Root CA certificates from
/home/da94773/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/security/cacerts
Loading JPI certificates from /home/da94773/.java/jpicerts140
Loaded JPI certificates from /home/da94773/.java/jpicerts140
Loading certificates from JPI session certificate store
Loaded certificates from JPI session certificate store
Check if certificate can be verified using certificates in Root CA
certificate store
Certificate to be verified:

I also attached a gif showing you how the problems look like. In the
Dialog you see that there are no buttons available. As the dialoge is
not resizable you don't have a chance to reach the buttons by enlarging
it.

Please consider opening the bug as it is reproducable and a severe error
for signed applets.

Greetings
Daniel
(Review ID: 126758)
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