Ubuntu
firefox package

ppc64le: Fails to load HTTPS pages with `Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_SERVER`

Bug #1937245 reported by Paul Menzel on 2021-07-22

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Firefox 90.0+build1-0ubuntu0.21.04.1 fails to load HTTPS URLs with the error:

> Secure Connection Failed
>
> An error occurred during a connection to blog.fefe.de. The client has encountered bad data from the server.
>
> Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_SERVER
>
> * The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
> * Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

Nothing related is logged in the terminal window, Firefox was started from.

Revision history for this message

Paul Menzel (paulmenzel) wrote on 2021-08-10:

The article *Firefox 90 on POWER (and a JIT progress report)* [1] summarizes the issue in NSS. It’s upstream bug report 1566124 [2], and there are two simple patches to be applied to NSS 3.66.

Starting Firefox with `NSS_DISABLE_PPC_GHASH=1` works around the issue.

[1]: https://www.talospace.com/2021/07/firefox-90-on-power-and-jit-progress.html
[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1566124