SUSE CVE-2018-8970

The intx509paramsethosts function in lib/libcrypto/x509/x509vpm.c in LibreSSL 2.7.0 before 2.7.1 does not support a certain special case of a zero name length, which causes silent omission of hostname verification, and consequently allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain...

hostname out of boundary memory access

There is a private function in libcurl called fixhostname that removes a trailing dot from the hostname if there is one. The function is called after the hostname has been extracted from the URL libcurl has been told to act on. If a URL is given with a zero-length hostname, like in "http://:80" o...