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| author | Emilia Kasper <emilia@openssl.org> | 2015-02-05 16:38:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Emilia Kasper <emilia@openssl.org> | 2015-02-10 15:36:03 +0100 |
| commit | 95929797a01eb4ad42694f1f848bdbb9decbcefe (patch) | |
| tree | 56cf46001e6839c97bf5a172321afa23ea24e930 /doc | |
| parent | bcfaa4eeee5bbb2ddf9545e41b62cbfc10ad60b0 (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)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/crypto/X509_check_host.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
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 |