[Patch] Non-permissive subjectAltName wildcard

[Andreas Metzler]

Hello,

this http://bugs.debian.org/479174 reported by Jean-Philippe Garcia
Ballester:

On 2008-05-03 Jean-Philippe Garcia Ballester <giga at le-pec.org> wrote:
> It seems too me that the subjectAltName wildcard matching has strong 
> constraints.

> First, it allows only one wildcard. Since a wildcard can only match
> a single domain component, multiple wildcards are useful (e.g.,
> *.*.example.org). I did not see in the rfc 2818 such restriction.

> Second, it only allows the wildcard to be at the beginning of the
> hostname.  Since the rfc 2818 gives “f*.com” as an example, I
> believe this is a false assert.

> Third, it only allows the wildcard to be followed by a ‘.’. This is
> not clearly stated in the rfc, but I believe it is reasonnable to
> assume that if “f*.com” is allowed, then “f*o.com” should be allowed
> as well.

> The attached patch fixes all these issues and add some tests.

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