GHSA-82j2-j2ch-gfr8: rustls-webpki: Denial of service via panic on malformed CRL BIT STRING
bit_string_flags() in src/der.rs panics with an index-out-of-bounds when given a BIT STRING whose content is exactly [0x00] (one byte: zero padding bits, zero data bytes). This is reachable through the public API BorrowedCertRevocationList::from_der() via the issuingDistributionPoint CRL extension.
Precondition: CRL checking is opt-in in rustls-webpki. This vulnerability affects only applications that explicitly pass RevocationOptions to verify_for_usage() and load CRL bytes from a source the attacker can influence. The default rustls configuration (no RevocationOptions) is not affected.
AI disclosure: This report was prepared with AI assistance (Claude). The vulnerability was discovered by differential fuzzing against a formally-verified Rust oracle. All technical claims have been independently verified against the live source code before submission.
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