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Author christian.heimes
Recipients alex, christian.heimes, dstufft, giampaolo.rodola, janssen, pitrou
Date 2016-08-05.09:26:34
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A X509 cert with a registered id general name in subject alternative name causes a SystemError: error return without exception set. This prevents host name validation of certs with a registered id.

>>> import _ssl
>>> _ssl._test_decode_cert('rid.pem')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
SystemError: error return without exception set

The problem is caused by a bug in OpenSSL's print function for general names. Python's _get_peer_alt_names() uses GENERAL_NAME_print() to print GEN_IPADD, GEN_RID and others into a buffer. The buffer is then split at ':' into two strings. This works for all fields except for GEN_RID because OpenSSL doesn't put a ':' after 'Registered ID', https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/crypto/x509v3/v3_alt.c#L183 . _get_peer_alt_names() fails and returns NULL without setting a proper exception.

It looks like we haven't had tests for GEN_RID as well as some other field types.

Related Red Hat bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1364268
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