
Specifically, an ASN.1 NumericString in the certificate CN will fail UTF-8 conversion and result in a negative return value, which the "x509 -checkhost" command-line option incorrectly interpreted as success. Also update X509_check_host docs to reflect reality. Thanks to Sean Burford (Google) for reporting this issue. Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
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