From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 22:18:37 +0000 (+0000) Subject: clarify the description of the null byte in cert name fix X-Git-Tag: curl-7_19_6~29 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aabf62e7d273d95426c2f2ce05813f9f6e470114;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git clarify the description of the null byte in cert name fix --- diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index a69c714ba3..2f0b740154 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ Daniel Stenberg (1 Aug 2009) if the name in the cert was "example.com\0theatualsite.com", libcurl would happily verify that cert for example.com. - libcurl now better use the length of the extracted name, not assuming it is - zero terminated. + libcurl now better uses the length of the extracted name, not using the zero + termination for getting the string length. + + This fixing only made and needed in OpenSSL interfacing code. - Tanguy Fautre pointed out that OpenSSL's function RAND_screen() (present only in some OpenSSL installs - like on Windows) isn't thread-safe and we