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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] crypto: ccm - avoid negative wrapping of integers
On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 10:18:47AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 07:01:20PM +0200, Jordy Zomer wrote:
> > Set csize to unsigned int to avoid it from wrapping as a negative number (since format input sends an unsigned integer to this function). This would also result in undefined behavior in the left shift when msg len is checked, potentially resulting in a buffer overflow in the memcpy call.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jordy Zomer <jordy@pwning.systems>
> > ---
> > To address was corrected, and ccm was added to the topic to indicate that this is just for ccm.
> >
> > crypto/ccm.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/crypto/ccm.c b/crypto/ccm.c
> > index 6b815ece51c6..e14201edf9db 100644
> > --- a/crypto/ccm.c
> > +++ b/crypto/ccm.c
> > @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static inline struct crypto_ccm_req_priv_ctx *crypto_ccm_reqctx(
> > return (void *)PTR_ALIGN((u8 *)aead_request_ctx(req), align + 1);
> > }
> >
> > -static int set_msg_len(u8 *block, unsigned int msglen, int csize)
> > +static int set_msg_len(u8 *block, unsigned int msglen, unsigned int csize)
> > {
> > __be32 data;
>
> This isn't necessarily a bad change, but the value of csize is clearly in
> [1, 256] if you read format_input(), and in fact is in [2, 8] if you read the
> whole file, so please don't claim this is actually fixing anything, as it's not.

Oh that was not obvious at all, I looked at that for a long time and
missed the place where this was checked earlier. Perhaps just make
csize here a u8 and that would take away all question about what is
happening?

thanks,

greg k-h

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