[FFmpeg-cvslog] avformat/tls_openssl: add hostname for verification

Daniel N Pettersson git at videolan.org
Tue Jul 22 03:58:42 EEST 2025


ffmpeg | branch: master | Daniel N Pettersson <danielnp at axis.com> | Mon Mar 14 15:35:07 2022 +0100| [e56fd2af1a0b65bf5a7788462cbaee3b4b909591] | committer: Marvin Scholz

avformat/tls_openssl: add hostname for verification

When verification is enabled (using -tls_verify 1) now
the hostname will be verified properly too, while before
only other aspects of the certificate were checked.

Co-Authored-By: Marvin Scholz <epirat07 at gmail.com>

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit;h=e56fd2af1a0b65bf5a7788462cbaee3b4b909591
---

 libavformat/tls_openssl.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libavformat/tls_openssl.c b/libavformat/tls_openssl.c
index a6b358d8f9..7845335811 100644
--- a/libavformat/tls_openssl.c
+++ b/libavformat/tls_openssl.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #include <openssl/bio.h>
 #include <openssl/ssl.h>
 #include <openssl/err.h>
+#include <openssl/x509v3.h>
 
 /**
  * Returns a heap‐allocated null‐terminated string containing
@@ -938,8 +939,7 @@ static int tls_open(URLContext *h, const char *uri, int flags, AVDictionary **op
     }
     ret = openssl_init_ca_key_cert(h);
     if (ret < 0) goto fail;
-    // Note, this doesn't check that the peer certificate actually matches
-    // the requested hostname.
+
     if (c->verify)
         SSL_CTX_set_verify(p->ctx, SSL_VERIFY_PEER|SSL_VERIFY_FAIL_IF_NO_PEER_CERT, NULL);
     p->ssl = SSL_new(p->ctx);
@@ -953,8 +953,17 @@ static int tls_open(URLContext *h, const char *uri, int flags, AVDictionary **op
     ret = init_bio_method(h);
     if (ret < 0)
         goto fail;
-    if (!c->listen && !c->numerichost)
+    if (!c->listen && !c->numerichost) {
+        // By default OpenSSL does too lax wildcard matching
+        SSL_set_hostflags(p->ssl, X509_CHECK_FLAG_NO_PARTIAL_WILDCARDS);
+        if (!SSL_set1_host(p->ssl, c->host)) {
+            av_log(h, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Failed to set hostname for TLS/SSL verification: %s\n",
+                openssl_get_error(p));
+            ret = AVERROR_EXTERNAL;
+            goto fail;
+        }
         SSL_set_tlsext_host_name(p->ssl, c->host);
+    }
     ret = c->listen ? SSL_accept(p->ssl) : SSL_connect(p->ssl);
     if (ret == 0) {
         av_log(h, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Unable to negotiate TLS/SSL session\n");



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