[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | Fix removal of duplicate certs during verification (!1653)

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Zoltán Fridrich commented on a discussion on lib/x509/verify-high.c: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1653#note_1137773727

> -		if (!(flags & GNUTLS_VERIFY_DO_NOT_ALLOW_UNSORTED_CHAIN)) {
> -			sorted_size = _gnutls_sort_clist(&cert_list[i],
> -							 cert_list_size - i);
> -		}
> -
> -		/* Remove duplicates. Start with index 1, as the first element
> -		 * may be re-checked after issuer retrieval. */
> -		for (j = 1; j < sorted_size; j++) {
> -			if (cert_set_contains(&cert_set, cert_list[i + j])) {
> -				if (i + j < cert_list_size - 1) {
> -					memmove(&cert_list[i + j],
> -						&cert_list[i + j + 1],
> -						sizeof(cert_list[i]));
> +	/* Remove duplicates */
> +	for (i = 0; i < cert_list_size - 1 && cert_list_size <= DEFAULT_MAX_VERIFY_DEPTH; ++i) {
> +		for (j = i + 1; j < cert_list_size && cert_list_size <= DEFAULT_MAX_VERIFY_DEPTH; ++j) {

In your code there definitely is an overlap, but not in the original code where it only moves sizeof(cert). I can however rework this using gnulib data structures as you said.

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