Fix proxy certificate pathlength verification

While travelling up the certificate chain, the internal
proxy_path_length must be updated with the pCPathLengthConstraint
value, or verification will not work properly.  This corresponds to
RFC 3820, 4.1.4 (a).

Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/crypto/x509/x509_vfy.c b/crypto/x509/x509_vfy.c
index 360664a813..15920840f9 100644
--- a/crypto/x509/x509_vfy.c
+++ b/crypto/x509/x509_vfy.c
@@ -533,10 +533,24 @@ static int check_chain_extensions(X509_STORE_CTX *ctx)
          * the next certificate must be a CA certificate.
          */
         if (x->ex_flags & EXFLAG_PROXY) {
-            if (x->ex_pcpathlen != -1 && i > x->ex_pcpathlen) {
-                if (!verify_cb_cert(ctx, x, i,
-                                    X509_V_ERR_PROXY_PATH_LENGTH_EXCEEDED))
-                    return 0;
+            /*
+             * RFC3820, 4.1.3 (b)(1) stipulates that if pCPathLengthConstraint
+             * is less than max_path_length, the former should be copied to
+             * the latter, and 4.1.4 (a) stipulates that max_path_length
+             * should be verified to be larger than zero and decrement it.
+             *
+             * Because we're checking the certs in the reverse order, we start
+             * with verifying that proxy_path_length isn't larger than pcPLC,
+             * and copy the latter to the former if it is, and finally,
+             * increment proxy_path_length.
+             */
+            if (x->ex_pcpathlen != -1) {
+                if (proxy_path_length > x->ex_pcpathlen) {
+                    if (!verify_cb_cert(ctx, x, i,
+                                        X509_V_ERR_PROXY_PATH_LENGTH_EXCEEDED))
+                        return 0;
+                }
+                proxy_path_length = x->ex_pcpathlen;
             }
             proxy_path_length++;
             must_be_ca = 0;