[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | Handle expiration of AddTrust root certificate (urgent) (#1008)

[Development of GNU's TLS library]

Daiki Ueno commented:


Thank you for the report. Though I am not following the discussion around this, my question is whether it is legitimate that the server sends such certificate chain. GnuTLS implements the [Basic Path Validation procedure](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-6.1) quite naively, meaning that it assumes that the `n`th certificate is signed by `n-1`th, and individual certificate validity is only checked at the [Basic Certificate Processing phase](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-6.1.3).

Having said that, there is a pre-processing mechanism and it wouldn't be so hard to "fix" this (I confirmed that it works if I add an extra check in `_gnutls_sort_clist`, though I guess the behavior should probably be controlled with a flag, like unsorted chain).

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