Hi Valerie
Please take a review on this fix:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/6906201/webrev.00
As the MIT words says, the MS bug was fixed in Vista SP2. However, I
tried it on a Vista SP1 and it seems the bug is already fixed there.
Therefore I only check the main version number in the fix, and anyone
still seeing the crash is advised to update to the latest SP no matter
what OS he is using.
Thanks
Max
Begin forwarded message:
From: [email protected]
*Synopsis*: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in
sun.security.krb5.Credentials
*Change Request ID*: 6906201
A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
Running windows-i586 Java on a 64 bit Windows crashes when trying to
access the LSA cache:
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x6d9b1b2f,
pid=3624, tid=4876
#
# JRE version: 6.0_17-b04
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (14.3-b01 mixed mode, sharing
windows-x86 )
=== *Evaluation*
=============================================================
This is a known Windows bug:
Microsoft Windows XP64 and 2003 64-bit edition do not properly
implement the LSA Kerberos functionality within the WOW64 32-bit
compatibility environment. As a result, calling the LSA functions
within WOW64 causes the Kerberos 5 library to crash. Microsoft has
fixed this problem as of Windows Vista Beta 2.
See http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/kfw-3.2/kfw-3.2.2/relnotes.html#mslsa
Either switch to 64bit JRE if you are using the OS above, or, do not
turn on the useTicketCache option.
Consider adding a check to JRE.
