Description of problem:
A bug in the client cert verify code of openssl prevents the use of client certs
with 4096 bits.
This was detected by playing around with an TLS enabled postfix.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHL's openssl-0.9.6b-28, sure others, too.


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a server cert and a client cert with 4096 bit
2.Run openssl server
# openssl s_server -cert cert.pem -key key.pem  -verify ca.cert
3.Run openssl client
$ openssl s_client -cert 4096-cert.pem -key 4096-key.pem -connect host:4433
	
	

Actual Results:  Server:
911:error:1408E098:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_MESSAGE:excessive message
size:s3_both.c:418:

Client:
4454:error:14094417:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert illegal
parameter:s3_pkt.c:964:SSL alert number 47
4454:error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl handshake failure:s23_lib.c:226:

Expected Results:  Proper connect.

Additional info:

Credits to Bodo Moeller and Lutz Jaenicke which found the reason of the bug in
the openssl code.

Following patch will fix this issue.

Note1: diff only shows the related part for this issue
Note2: client certs with more than 4096 bit still not supported

--- openssl-engine-0.9.6b/ssl/s3_srvr.c Sun Nov  3 17:36:13 2002
+++ openssl-0.9.6-stable-SNAP-20021102/ssl/s3_srvr.c    Mon Oct 28 17:02:46 2002
@@ -1477,7 +1566,7 @@
                SSL3_ST_SR_CERT_VRFY_A,
                SSL3_ST_SR_CERT_VRFY_B,
                -1,
-               512, /* 512? */
+               514, /* 514? */
                &ok);

        if (!ok) return((int)n);