Changes between 1.1.1t and 1.1.1u [xx XXX xxxx]
+ *) Corrected documentation of X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() to mention
+ that it does not enable policy checking. Thanks to
+ David Benjamin for discovering this issue. (CVE-2023-0466)
+ [Tomas Mraz]
+
*) Fixed an issue where invalid certificate policies in leaf certificates are
silently ignored by OpenSSL and other certificate policy checks are skipped
for that certificate. A malicious CA could use this to deliberately assert
Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.1t and OpenSSL 1.1.1u [under development]
+ o Fixed documentation of X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() (CVE-2023-0466)
o Fixed handling of invalid certificate policies in leaf certificates
(CVE-2023-0465)
o Limited the number of nodes created in a policy tree ([CVE-2023-0464])
X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_time() sets the verification time in B<param> to
B<t>. Normally the current time is used.
-X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() enables policy checking (it is disabled
-by default) and adds B<policy> to the acceptable policy set.
+X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() adds B<policy> to the acceptable policy set.
+Contrary to preexisting documentation of this function it does not enable
+policy checking.
X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies() enables policy checking (it is disabled
by default) and sets the acceptable policy set to B<policies>. Any existing
The X509_VERIFY_PARAM_get_hostflags() function was added in OpenSSL 1.1.0i.
+The function X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() was historically documented as
+enabling policy checking however the implementation has never done this.
+The documentation was changed to align with the implementation.
+
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