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| -rw-r--r-- | CHANGES.md | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS.md | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod | 9 |
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md index 31cc6095cc..eb948e6b74 100644 --- a/CHANGES.md +++ b/CHANGES.md @@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ breaking changes, and mappings for the large list of deprecated functions. ### Changes between 3.0.8 and 3.0.9 [xx XXX xxxx] + * Corrected documentation of X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() to mention + that it does not enable policy checking. Thanks to David Benjamin for + discovering this issue. + ([CVE-2023-0466]) + + *Tomáš Mráz* + * Fixed an issue where invalid certificate policies in leaf certificates are silently ignored by OpenSSL and other certificate policy checks are skipped for that certificate. A malicious CA could use this to deliberately assert @@ -19599,6 +19606,7 @@ ndif <!-- Links --> +[CVE-2023-0466]: https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#CVE-2023-0466 [CVE-2023-0465]: https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#CVE-2023-0465 [CVE-2023-0464]: https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#CVE-2023-0464 [CVE-2023-0401]: https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#CVE-2023-0401 @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ OpenSSL 3.0 ### Major changes between OpenSSL 3.0.8 and OpenSSL 3.0.9 [under development] + * Fixed documentation of X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() ([CVE-2023-0466]) * Fixed handling of invalid certificate policies in leaf certificates ([CVE-2023-0465]) * Limited the number of nodes created in a policy tree ([CVE-2023-0464]) @@ -1436,6 +1437,7 @@ OpenSSL 0.9.x * Support for various new platforms <!-- Links --> +[CVE-2023-0466]: https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#CVE-2023-0466 [CVE-2023-0465]: https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#CVE-2023-0465 [CVE-2023-0464]: https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#CVE-2023-0464 [CVE-2023-0401]: https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#CVE-2023-0401 diff --git a/doc/man3/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod b/doc/man3/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod index 75a1677022..43c1900bca 100644 --- a/doc/man3/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod +++ b/doc/man3/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod @@ -98,8 +98,9 @@ B<trust>. X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_time() sets the verification time in B<param> to B<t>. Normally the current time is used. -X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() enables policy checking (it is disabled -by default) and adds B<policy> to the acceptable policy set. +X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() adds B<policy> to the acceptable policy set. +Contrary to preexisting documentation of this function it does not enable +policy checking. X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies() enables policy checking (it is disabled by default) and sets the acceptable policy set to B<policies>. Any existing @@ -400,6 +401,10 @@ The X509_VERIFY_PARAM_get_hostflags() function was added in OpenSSL 1.1.0i. The X509_VERIFY_PARAM_get0_host(), X509_VERIFY_PARAM_get0_email(), and X509_VERIFY_PARAM_get1_ip_asc() functions were added in OpenSSL 3.0. +The function X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() was historically documented as +enabling policy checking however the implementation has never done this. +The documentation was changed to align with the implementation. + =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright 2009-2023 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. |