/* revokedCertificates - Sequence of Sequence, Optional */
        if ( tag == LBER_SEQUENCE ) {
                ber_len_t seqlen;
-               if ( ber_peek_tag( ber, &seqlen ) == LBER_SEQUENCE ) {
-                       /* Should NOT be empty */
-                       ber_skip_data( ber, len );
+               ber_tag_t stag;
+               stag = ber_peek_tag( ber, &seqlen );
+               if ( stag == LBER_SEQUENCE || !len ) {
+                       /* RFC5280 requires non-empty, but X.509(2005) allows empty. */
+                       if ( len )
+                               ber_skip_data( ber, len );
                        tag = ber_skip_tag( ber, &len );
                }
        }