[squid-dev] [PATCH] SSL CN wildcard must only match a single domain component [fragment]

Christos Tsantilas christos at chtsanti.net
Mon Sep 5 08:42:07 UTC 2016


If no any objection I will apply this patch to trunk.


On 08/24/2016 06:31 PM, Christos Tsantilas wrote:
> When comparing the requested domain name with a certificate Common Name,
> Squid expanded wildcard to cover more than one domain name label (a.k.a
> component), violating RFC 2818 requirement[1]. For example, Squid
> thought that wrong.host.example.com matched a *.example.com CN.
>
>     [1] "the wildcard character * ... is considered to match any single
>     domain name component or component fragment. E.g., *.a.com matches
>     foo.a.com but not bar.foo.a.com".
>
> In other contexts (e.g., ACLs), wildcards expand to all components.
> matchDomainName() now accepts a mdnRejectSubsubDomains flag that selects
> the right behavior for CN match validation.
>
> The old boolean honorWildcards parameter replaced with a flag, for
> clarity and consistency sake.
>
> This patch also handles the cases where the host name consists only from
> dots (eg malformed Host header or SNI info). The old code has undefined
> behaviour in these cases. Moreover it handles the case a certificate
> contain zero length string as CN or alternate name.
>
> This is a Measurement Factory project.
>
>
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