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authorNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2019-12-23 20:20:58 +0100
committerNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>2019-12-26 07:46:43 +0100
commit49d27a55031e72ade52984f5cd94e82e97b46228 (patch)
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downloadgnutls-49d27a55031e72ade52984f5cd94e82e97b46228.tar.gz
x509: do not tolerate invalid DER time
This effectively reverts !400 and ensures that we no longer tolerate invalid DER time. This complements the previous commit by Lili Quan and ensures we provide the --disable-strict-der-time backwards compatibility option. Resolves: #207 Signed-off-by: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>
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** libgnutls: Introduced the gnutls_ocsp_req_const_t which is compatible
with gnutls_ocsp_req_t but const.
-** libgnutls: Reject certificates with invalid characters in Time fields (#870).
+** libgnutls: Reject certificates with invalid time fields. That is we reject
+ certificates with invalid characters in Time fields, or invalid time formatting
+ To continue accepting the invalid form compile with --disable-strict-der-time
+ (#207, #870).
** libgnutls: Added support for GOST CNT_IMIT ciphersuite (as defined by
draft-smyshlyaev-tls12-gost-suites-06).