+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1364444 +++

Description of problem:
Python fails to decode X.509 certificate with a GEN_RID general name in subject alternative names. The problem makes it impossible to verify that a server certificate matches a host name. On the other hand registered id are required for SearchGuard 2.x with Elasticsearch 2.x. #1364268 has more information.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
All versions of Python in RHEL and Fedora are affected.

How reproducible:
The bug can be reproduced with any certificate that has a registered id (GEN_RID) in the X509v3 subject alt name extension.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download rid.pem from https://bugs.python.org/issue27691
2. python -c "import _ssl; print(_ssl._test_decode_cert('rid.pem'))"

Actual results:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
SystemError: error return without exception set

Expected results:
{'OCSP': ('http://acme.test/ca/ocsp/tls-server-ca',), 'serialNumber': '01', 'crlDistributionPoints': ('http://acme.test/ca/tls-server-ca.crl',), 'version': 3, 'caIssuers': ('http://acme.test/ca/tls-server-ca.cer',), 'notAfter': 'Aug  5 09:13:13 2018 GMT', 'subjectAltName': (('Registered ID', '1.2.3.4.5.5'), ('DNS', 'localhost'), ('IP Address', '127.0.0.1'), ('IP Address', '0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1\n')), 'subject': ((('countryName', 'XX'),), (('organizationName', 'Acme Corp'),), (('organizationalUnitName', 'Acme Users'),), (('commonName', 'localhost'),)), 'issuer': ((('countryName', 'XX'),), (('organizationName', 'Acme Corp'),), (('organizationalUnitName', 'Acme Certificate Authority'),), (('commonName', 'Acme TLS Server CA'),)), 'notBefore': 'Aug  5 09:13:13 2016 GMT'}


Additional info:
The root cause of the Python bug is a bug in OpenSSL's GENERAL_NAME_print() function, see #1364268. The ticket on Python's bug tracker has a fix with unit tests.

--- Additional comment from Red Hat Bugzilla Rules Engine on 2016-08-05 07:26:30 EDT ---

Since this bug report was entered in Red Hat Bugzilla, the release flag has been set to ? to ensure that it is properly evaluated for this release.

--- Additional comment from Petr Viktorin on 2016-08-08 05:04:29 EDT ---

Fixing Python tracker ID.

I plan to add devel_ack as soon as the patch is upstream.