Don't use strcasecmp and strncasecmp for IA5 strings
The functions strcasecmp() and strncasecmp() will use locale specific rules when performing comparison. This could cause some problems in certain locales. For example in the Turkish locale an 'I' character is not the uppercase version of 'i'. However IA5 strings should not use locale specific rules, i.e. for an IA5 string 'I' is uppercase 'i' even if using the Turkish locale. This fixes a bug in name constraints checking reported by Thomas Pornin (NCCGroup). This is not considered a security issue because it would require both a Turkish locale (or other locale with similar issues) and malfeasance by a trusted name-constrained CA for a certificate to pass name constraints in error. The constraints also have to be for excluded sub-trees which are extremely rare. Failure to match permitted subtrees is a bug, not a vulnerability. Reviewed-by:Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4570)
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