Don't try and verify signatures if key is NULL (CVE-2013-0166)
authorDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:30:42 +0000 (13:30 +0000)
committerDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>
Tue, 1 Apr 2014 15:39:35 +0000 (16:39 +0100)
Add additional check to catch this in ASN1_item_verify too.
(cherry picked from commit 66e8211c0b1347970096e04b18aa52567c325200)

CHANGES
crypto/asn1/a_verify.c
crypto/ocsp/ocsp_vfy.c

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 51e65b7743fa625755862809a6ddeecc8202640c..6130aefff0171156f9323225724f0f3189d6ca9c 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
      This fixes a DoS attack. (CVE-2013-0166)
      [Steve Henson]
 
+  *) Return an error when checking OCSP signatures when key is NULL.
+     This fixes a DoS attack. (CVE-2013-0166)
+     [Steve Henson]
+
   *) Call OCSP Stapling callback after ciphersuite has been chosen, so
      the right response is stapled. Also change SSL_get_certificate()
      so it returns the certificate actually sent.
index 432722e4099e6d9ecdc73646e8b931826705b69d..fc84cd3d191bcec17bc4553eaeb0ef963cc540b4 100644 (file)
@@ -140,6 +140,12 @@ int ASN1_item_verify(const ASN1_ITEM *it, X509_ALGOR *a,
 
        int mdnid, pknid;
 
+       if (!pkey)
+               {
+               ASN1err(ASN1_F_ASN1_ITEM_VERIFY, ERR_R_PASSED_NULL_PARAMETER);
+               return -1;
+               }
+
        EVP_MD_CTX_init(&ctx);
 
        /* Convert signature OID into digest and public key OIDs */
index 8a5e788d960fb4cadff36c352ad9c12cdf30dddb..276718304dd211d4be989fb750d8c95ff792feff 100644 (file)
@@ -91,9 +91,12 @@ int OCSP_basic_verify(OCSP_BASICRESP *bs, STACK_OF(X509) *certs,
                {
                EVP_PKEY *skey;
                skey = X509_get_pubkey(signer);
-               ret = OCSP_BASICRESP_verify(bs, skey, 0);
-               EVP_PKEY_free(skey);
-               if(ret <= 0)
+               if (skey)
+                       {
+                       ret = OCSP_BASICRESP_verify(bs, skey, 0);
+                       EVP_PKEY_free(skey);
+                       }
+               if(!skey || ret <= 0)
                        {
                        OCSPerr(OCSP_F_OCSP_BASIC_VERIFY, OCSP_R_SIGNATURE_FAILURE);
                        goto end;