OpenSSL CVE-2020-7042 Certificate Validation Bypass Vulnerability

Description

An issue was discovered in openfortivpn 1.11.0 when used with OpenSSL 1.0.2 or later. tunnel.c mishandles certificate validation because the hostname check operates on uninitialized memory. The outcome is that a valid certificate is never accepted (only a malformed certificate may be accepted).

Affected Applications

OpenSSL

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