| commit 0d16b7e99aafc0b4a6d729eec65a411a7e025f0a |
| Author: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> |
| Date: Tue Mar 21 16:15:47 2023 +0100 |
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| Fix documentation of X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() |
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| The function was incorrectly documented as enabling policy checking. |
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| Fixes: CVE-2023-0466 |
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| Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> |
| Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org> |
| (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/20564) |
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| diff --git a/doc/man3/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod b/doc/man3/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod |
| index f6f304bf7b..aa292f9336 100644 |
| --- a/doc/man3/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod |
| +++ b/doc/man3/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod |
| @@ -92,8 +92,9 @@ B<trust>. |
| X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_time() sets the verification time in B<param> to |
| B<t>. Normally the current time is used. |
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| -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. |
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| X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies() enables policy checking (it is disabled |
| by default) and sets the acceptable policy set to B<policies>. Any existing |
| @@ -377,6 +378,10 @@ and has no effect. |
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| The X509_VERIFY_PARAM_get_hostflags() function was added in OpenSSL 1.1.0i. |
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| +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. |
| + |
| =head1 COPYRIGHT |
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