mbedtls/ChangeLog.d/rsa-mutex.txt
Gilles Peskine b15832160b Make entropy double-free work
Although the library documentation does not guarantee that calling
mbedtls_entropy_free() twice works, it's a plausible assumption and it's
natural to write code that frees an object twice. While this is uncommon for
an entropy context, which is usually a global variable, it came up in our
own unit tests (random_twice tests in test_suite_random).

Announce this in the same changelog entry as for RSA because it's the same
bug in the two modules.

Signed-off-by: Gilles Peskine <Gilles.Peskine@arm.com>
2021-02-23 11:27:03 +01:00

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Bugfix
* Ensure that calling mbedtls_rsa_free() or mbedtls_entropy_free()
twice is safe. This happens for RSA when some Mbed TLS library functions
fail. Such a double-free was not safe when MBEDTLS_THREADING_C was
enabled on platforms where freeing a mutex twice is not safe.
* Fix a resource leak in a bad-arguments case of mbedtls_rsa_gen_key()
when MBEDTLS_THREADING_C is enabled on platforms where initializing
a mutex allocates resources.
Default behavior changes
* In mbedtls_rsa_context objects, the ver field was formerly documented
as always 0. It is now reserved for internal purposes and may take
different values.