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authorEmilia Kasper <emilia@openssl.org>2015-02-05 16:38:54 +0100
committerEmilia Kasper <emilia@openssl.org>2015-02-10 15:36:03 +0100
commit95929797a01eb4ad42694f1f848bdbb9decbcefe (patch)
tree56cf46001e6839c97bf5a172321afa23ea24e930
parentbcfaa4eeee5bbb2ddf9545e41b62cbfc10ad60b0 (diff)
Fix hostname validation in the command-line tool to honour negative return values.
Specifically, an ASN.1 NumericString in the certificate CN will fail UTF-8 conversion and result in a negative return value, which the "x509 -checkhost" command-line option incorrectly interpreted as success. Also update X509_check_host docs to reflect reality. Thanks to Sean Burford (Google) for reporting this issue. Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> (cherry picked from commit 0923e7df9eafec6db9c75405d7085ec8581f01bd)
-rw-r--r--apps/apps.c2
-rw-r--r--crypto/x509v3/v3_utl.c7
-rw-r--r--doc/crypto/X509_check_host.pod7
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/apps/apps.c b/apps/apps.c
index e6bb48f085..ef5d087eb6 100644
--- a/apps/apps.c
+++ b/apps/apps.c
@@ -2775,7 +2775,7 @@ void print_cert_checks(BIO *bio, X509 *x,
return;
if (checkhost) {
BIO_printf(bio, "Hostname %s does%s match certificate\n",
- checkhost, X509_check_host(x, checkhost, 0, 0, NULL)
+ checkhost, X509_check_host(x, checkhost, 0, 0, NULL) == 1
? "" : " NOT");
}
diff --git a/crypto/x509v3/v3_utl.c b/crypto/x509v3/v3_utl.c
index f65323be05..ed6099e120 100644
--- a/crypto/x509v3/v3_utl.c
+++ b/crypto/x509v3/v3_utl.c
@@ -901,8 +901,13 @@ static int do_check_string(ASN1_STRING *a, int cmp_type, equal_fn equal,
int astrlen;
unsigned char *astr;
astrlen = ASN1_STRING_to_UTF8(&astr, a);
- if (astrlen < 0)
+ if (astrlen < 0) {
+ /*
+ * -1 could be an internal malloc failure or a decoding error from
+ * malformed input; we can't distinguish.
+ */
return -1;
+ }
rv = equal(astr, astrlen, (unsigned char *)b, blen, flags);
if (rv > 0 && peername)
*peername = BUF_strndup((char *)astr, astrlen);
diff --git a/doc/crypto/X509_check_host.pod b/doc/crypto/X509_check_host.pod
index f8b530df9b..0def17aac1 100644
--- a/doc/crypto/X509_check_host.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/X509_check_host.pod
@@ -109,9 +109,12 @@ but would not match a peer certificate with a DNS name of
=head1 RETURN VALUES
The functions return 1 for a successful match, 0 for a failed match
-and -1 for an internal error: typically a memory allocation failure.
+and -1 for an internal error: typically a memory allocation failure
+or an ASN.1 decoding error.
-X509_check_ip_asc() can also return -2 if the IP address string is malformed.
+All functions can also return -2 if the input is malformed. For example,
+X509_check_host() returns -2 if the provided B<name> contains embedded
+NULs.
=head1 NOTES