From 33dc46b080a254d6639f6c5cf07a864a32f05c78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Bakker
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:11:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix bug with mpi_fill_random() on big-endian
---
ChangeLog | 2 ++
library/bignum.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2f5be94a9..5598467e3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ Bugfix
ServerHello when no extensions are present (found by Matthew Page)
* rsa_check_pubkey() now allows an E up to N
* On OpenBSD, use arc4random_buf() instead of rand() to prevent warnings
+ * mpi_fill_random() was creating numbers larger than requested on
+ big-endian platform when size was not an integer number of limbs
= PolarSSL 1.3.6 released on 2014-04-11
diff --git a/library/bignum.c b/library/bignum.c
index 012e9e3e4..5fbb7d354 100644
--- a/library/bignum.c
+++ b/library/bignum.c
@@ -1773,16 +1773,28 @@ cleanup:
return( ret );
}
+/*
+ * Fill X with size bytes of random.
+ *
+ * Use a temporary bytes representation to make sure the result is the same
+ * regardless of the platform endianness (usefull when f_rng is actually
+ * deterministic, eg for tests).
+ */
int mpi_fill_random( mpi *X, size_t size,
int (*f_rng)(void *, unsigned char *, size_t),
void *p_rng )
{
int ret;
+ unsigned char buf[POLARSSL_MPI_MAX_SIZE];
+
+ if( size > POLARSSL_MPI_MAX_SIZE )
+ return( POLARSSL_ERR_MPI_BAD_INPUT_DATA );
MPI_CHK( mpi_grow( X, CHARS_TO_LIMBS( size ) ) );
MPI_CHK( mpi_lset( X, 0 ) );
- MPI_CHK( f_rng( p_rng, (unsigned char *) X->p, size ) );
+ MPI_CHK( f_rng( p_rng, buf, size ) );
+ MPI_CHK( mpi_read_binary( X, buf, size ) );
cleanup:
return( ret );