From: Matt Caswell Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:00:01 +0000 (+0000) Subject: ASN1_primitive_new NULL param handling X-Git-Tag: OpenSSL_1_1_0-pre1~1556 X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=9e488fd6ab2c295941e91a47ab7bcd346b7540c7 ASN1_primitive_new NULL param handling ASN1_primitive_new takes an ASN1_ITEM * param |it|. There are a couple of conditional code paths that check whether |it| is NULL or not - but later |it| is deref'd unconditionally. If |it| was ever really NULL then this would seg fault. In practice ASN1_primitive_new is marked as an internal function in the public header file. The only places it is ever used internally always pass a non NULL parameter for |it|. Therefore, change the code to sanity check that |it| is not NULL, and remove the conditional checking. Reviewed-by: Rich Salz Reviewed-by: Andy Polyakov --- diff --git a/crypto/asn1/tasn_new.c b/crypto/asn1/tasn_new.c index d25c68c545..7d2964f023 100644 --- a/crypto/asn1/tasn_new.c +++ b/crypto/asn1/tasn_new.c @@ -315,13 +315,16 @@ int ASN1_primitive_new(ASN1_VALUE **pval, const ASN1_ITEM *it) ASN1_STRING *str; int utype; - if (it && it->funcs) { + if (!it) + return 0; + + if (it->funcs) { const ASN1_PRIMITIVE_FUNCS *pf = it->funcs; if (pf->prim_new) return pf->prim_new(pval, it); } - if (!it || (it->itype == ASN1_ITYPE_MSTRING)) + if (it->itype == ASN1_ITYPE_MSTRING) utype = -1; else utype = it->utype;