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Recommendation | Severity | Likelihood | Remediation Cost | Priority | Level |
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EXP19-C | Medium | Probable | Medium | P8 | L2 |
Automated Detection
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Related Vulnerabilities
CVE-2014-1266 was due, in large part, to failing to follow this recommendation. There is a spurious "goto fail" statement on line 631 of sslKeyExchange.c. This "goto" gets executed unconditionally, even though it is indented as if it were part of the preceding "if" statement. As a result, the call to sslRawVerify (which performs the actual signature verification) is rendered dead code. [ImperialViolet 2014]. If the body of the "if" statement had been enclosed in braces, then this defect likely would not have happened.
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