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Fix HTTP Request formatting in AdminConnection #489

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AdminConnection's processRequest method creates a hand-rolled HTTP
request to the remote server. This is used by PKI Console when
authenticated as an administrator. Because of the recent CVE fix in
Tomcat (CVE-2020-1935), Tomcat will no longer accept \n (Line Feed)
terminated requests and headers, and instead reject them as a bad
request. We fix this by adding the missing and required CR, per HTTP
specification.

This fixes the following exception in PKIConsole:

java.io.IOException: 400
    at com.netscape.admin.certsrv.connection.JSSConnection.readHeader(JSSConnection.java:537)
    at com.netscape.admin.certsrv.connection.JSSConnection.initReadResponse(JSSConnection.java:497)
    at com.netscape.admin.certsrv.connection.JSSConnection.sendRequest(JSSConnection.java:411)
    at com.netscape.admin.certsrv.connection.AdminConnection.processRequest(AdminConnection.java:788)
    at com.netscape.admin.certsrv.connection.AdminConnection.sendRequest(AdminConnection.java:681)
    at com.netscape.admin.certsrv.connection.AdminConnection.sendRequest(AdminConnection.java:646)
    at com.netscape.admin.certsrv.connection.AdminConnection.authType(AdminConnection.java:379)
    at com.netscape.admin.certsrv.CMSServerInfo.getAuthType(CMSServerInfo.java:128)

Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <ascheel@redhat.com>

@cipherboy cipherboy added the Bug Bug fixes label Jul 21, 2020
@cipherboy cipherboy requested a review from edewata July 21, 2020 19:14
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LGTM

@cipherboy cipherboy force-pushed the fix-pki-console-requests branch 4 times, most recently from a7c6c2e to 074f453 Compare July 21, 2020 19:45
AdminConnection's processRequest method creates a hand-rolled HTTP
request to the remote server. This is used by PKI Console when
authenticated as an administrator. Because of the recent CVE fix in
Tomcat (CVE-2020-1935), Tomcat will no longer accept \n (Line Feed)
terminated requests and headers, and instead reject them as a bad
request. We fix this by adding the missing and required CR, per HTTP
specification.

This fixes the following exception in PKIConsole:

    java.io.IOException: 400
        at com.netscape.admin.certsrv.connection.JSSConnection.readHeader(JSSConnection.java:537)
        at com.netscape.admin.certsrv.connection.JSSConnection.initReadResponse(JSSConnection.java:497)
        at com.netscape.admin.certsrv.connection.JSSConnection.sendRequest(JSSConnection.java:411)
        at com.netscape.admin.certsrv.connection.AdminConnection.processRequest(AdminConnection.java:788)
        at com.netscape.admin.certsrv.connection.AdminConnection.sendRequest(AdminConnection.java:681)
        at com.netscape.admin.certsrv.connection.AdminConnection.sendRequest(AdminConnection.java:646)
        at com.netscape.admin.certsrv.connection.AdminConnection.authType(AdminConnection.java:379)
        at com.netscape.admin.certsrv.CMSServerInfo.getAuthType(CMSServerInfo.java:128)

Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <ascheel@redhat.com>
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