[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | GnuTLS cannot parse the ext Netscape Comment (#1162)

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GOODPWDCETCSZ created an issue: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1162



## Description of problem:
GnuTLS cannot parse the ext Netscape Comment.

## Version of gnutls used:
3.5.5, 3.6.13

## Distributor of gnutls (e.g., Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL)
Ubuntu x64

## How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:

 * `certtool -i --infile seed-7s35-9s14-37s37-55s29-184s38.pem`

## Actual results:
```
Unknown extension 2.16.840.1.113730.1.13 (critical):
	ASCII: ..here is the nsComment content
	Hexdump: 161d6865726520697320746865206e73436f6d6d656e7420636f6e74656e74
```

## Expected results:

sth. similar to the following.

```
Netscape Comment: critical
         here is the nsComment content
```

[seed-7s35-9s14-37s37-55s29-184s38.zip](/uploads/659720fbf76ade5e1632d2cc2db50b0a/seed-7s35-9s14-37s37-55s29-184s38.zip)

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