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authorBenjamin Kaduk <bkaduk@akamai.com>2018-10-04 13:49:21 -0500
committerBen Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>2018-10-08 16:41:33 -0500
commita7ee1ef61b1893038008691a4a6979cf2da91439 (patch)
tree9251f3a26fe1ccd2609f8e0f048312ac98630361 /apps
parent521738e990a5ef36334ee0296706697b49b48e4a (diff)
apps: allow empty attribute values with -subj
Historically (i.e., OpenSSL 1.0.x), the openssl applications would allow for empty subject attributes to be passed via the -subj argument, e.g., `opensl req -subj '/CN=joe/O=/OU=local' ...`. Commit db4c08f0194d58c6192f0d8311bf3f20e251cf4f applied a badly needed rewrite to the parse_name() helper function that parses these strings, but in the process dropped a check that would skip attributes with no associated value. As a result, such strings are now treated as hard errors and the operation fails. Restore the check to skip empty attribute values and restore the historical behavior. Document the behavior for empty subject attribute values in the corresponding applications' manual pages. Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7349) (cherry picked from commit 3d362f190306b62a17aa2fd475b2bc8b3faa8142)
Diffstat (limited to 'apps')
-rw-r--r--apps/apps.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/apps/apps.c b/apps/apps.c
index 9be656054a..653e3973e0 100644
--- a/apps/apps.c
+++ b/apps/apps.c
@@ -1831,6 +1831,12 @@ X509_NAME *parse_name(const char *cp, long chtype, int canmulti)
opt_getprog(), typestr);
continue;
}
+ if (*valstr == '\0') {
+ BIO_printf(bio_err,
+ "%s: No value provided for Subject Attribute %s, skipped\n",
+ opt_getprog(), typestr);
+ continue;
+ }
if (!X509_NAME_add_entry_by_NID(n, nid, chtype,
valstr, strlen((char *)valstr),
-1, ismulti ? -1 : 0))