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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2009-08-01 22:18:37 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2009-08-01 22:18:37 +0000
commitaabf62e7d273d95426c2f2ce05813f9f6e470114 (patch)
tree20038f94473178fff7158fc6fea33b8a4290e0e0 /CHANGES
parent6d891d2a3b907f12e5c9b335a806fcb7e77b877b (diff)
clarify the description of the null byte in cert name fix
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@@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ Daniel Stenberg (1 Aug 2009)
if the name in the cert was "example.com\0theatualsite.com", libcurl would
happily verify that cert for example.com.
- libcurl now better use the length of the extracted name, not assuming it is
- zero terminated.
+ libcurl now better uses the length of the extracted name, not using the zero
+ termination for getting the string length.
+
+ This fixing only made and needed in OpenSSL interfacing code.
- Tanguy Fautre pointed out that OpenSSL's function RAND_screen() (present
only in some OpenSSL installs - like on Windows) isn't thread-safe and we