David Benjamin reported a flaw in the X.509 name checks in OpenSSL, a
Secure Sockets Layer toolkit, which may cause an application performing
certificate name checks to crash, resulting in denial of service.
Additional details can be found in the upstream advisory:
https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20240903.txt
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-5764-1
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