From db89d8f04bb131bbf0e2b87eb9a1515076c893d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Dr. David von Oheimb" <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 23:23:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] APPS: fix load_certs_multifile() interpreting backslashes

Fixes #14622

Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/14636)
---
 apps/lib/apps.c | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apps/lib/apps.c b/apps/lib/apps.c
index 61b3ebc6de..69a98ecf37 100644
--- a/apps/lib/apps.c
+++ b/apps/lib/apps.c
@@ -641,12 +641,8 @@ void* app_malloc(int sz, const char *what)
 char *next_item(char *opt) /* in list separated by comma and/or space */
 {
     /* advance to separator (comma or whitespace), if any */
-    while (*opt != ',' && !isspace(*opt) && *opt != '\0') {
-        if (*opt == '\\' && opt[1] != '\0')
-            /* skip and unescape '\' escaped char */
-            memmove(opt, opt + 1, strlen(opt));
+    while (*opt != ',' && !isspace(*opt) && *opt != '\0')
         opt++;
-    }
     if (*opt != '\0') {
         /* terminate current item */
         *opt++ = '\0';