Ensure EC private keys retain leading zeros

RFC5915 requires the use of the I2OSP primitive as defined in RFC3447
for storing an EC Private Key. This converts the private key into an
OCTETSTRING and retains any leading zeros. This commit ensures that those
leading zeros are present if required.

Reviewed-by: Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>

diff --git a/crypto/ec/ec_asn1.c b/crypto/ec/ec_asn1.c
index 9bba26ed7edc2adc1363719ec1efdf7d41ea98b1..97c590691dd16673b8c8b4c975f1778e6c4280fe 100644 (file)
--- a/crypto/ec/ec_asn1.c
+++ b/crypto/ec/ec_asn1.c
@@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ int i2d_ECPrivateKey(EC_KEY *a, unsigned char **out)
 {
     int ret = 0, ok = 0;
     unsigned char *buffer = NULL;
-    size_t buf_len = 0, tmp_len;
+    size_t buf_len = 0, tmp_len, bn_len;
     EC_PRIVATEKEY *priv_key = NULL;
 
     if (a == NULL || a->group == NULL || a->priv_key == NULL ||
@@ -1126,18 +1126,32 @@ int i2d_ECPrivateKey(EC_KEY *a, unsigned char **out)
 
     priv_key->version = a->version;
 
-    buf_len = (size_t)BN_num_bytes(a->priv_key);
+    bn_len = (size_t)BN_num_bytes(a->priv_key);
+
+    /* Octetstring may need leading zeros if BN is to short */
+
+    buf_len = (EC_GROUP_get_degree(a->group) + 7) / 8;
+
+    if (bn_len > buf_len) {
+        ECerr(EC_F_I2D_ECPRIVATEKEY, EC_R_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL);
+        goto err;
+    }
+
     buffer = OPENSSL_malloc(buf_len);
     if (buffer == NULL) {
         ECerr(EC_F_I2D_ECPRIVATEKEY, ERR_R_MALLOC_FAILURE);
         goto err;
     }
 
-    if (!BN_bn2bin(a->priv_key, buffer)) {
+    if (!BN_bn2bin(a->priv_key, buffer + buf_len - bn_len)) {
         ECerr(EC_F_I2D_ECPRIVATEKEY, ERR_R_BN_LIB);
         goto err;
     }
 
+    if (buf_len - bn_len > 0) {
+        memset(buffer, 0, buf_len - bn_len);
+    }
+
     if (!ASN1_OCTET_STRING_set(priv_key->privateKey, buffer, buf_len)) {
         ECerr(EC_F_I2D_ECPRIVATEKEY, ERR_R_ASN1_LIB);
         goto err;