crypto/tls: align cert decode alert w/ BSSL

For malformed client/server certificates in a TLS handshake send
a decode_error alert, matching BoringSSL behaviour.

Previously crypto/tls used a bad_certificate alert for this purpose.
The TLS specification is imprecise enough to allow this to be considered
a spec. justified choice, but since all other places in the protocol
encourage using decode_error for structurally malformed messages we may
as well do the same here and get some extra cross-impl consistency for
free.

This also allows un-ignoring the BoGo
GarbageCertificate-[Client|Server]-[TLS12|TLS13] tests.

Updates #72006

Change-Id: Ide45ba1602816e71c3289a60e77587266c3b9036
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/652995
LUCI-TryBot-Result: Go LUCI <golang-scoped@luci-project-accounts.iam.gserviceaccount.com>
Reviewed-by: Junyang Shao <shaojunyang@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Roland Shoemaker <roland@golang.org>
This commit is contained in:
Daniel McCarney 2025-02-26 14:13:15 -05:00
parent 5b4209fedb
commit 4635ad047a
3 changed files with 2 additions and 3 deletions

View file

@ -1096,7 +1096,7 @@ func (c *Conn) verifyServerCertificate(certificates [][]byte) error {
for i, asn1Data := range certificates {
cert, err := globalCertCache.newCert(asn1Data)
if err != nil {
c.sendAlert(alertBadCertificate)
c.sendAlert(alertDecodeError)
return errors.New("tls: failed to parse certificate from server: " + err.Error())
}
if cert.cert.PublicKeyAlgorithm == x509.RSA {