From db8156533133836b19bca51f7fabba4d161b6ba2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "teor (Tim Wilson-Brown)" Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:22:58 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or zero size Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Closes bug #18089. Reported by "gk", patch by "teor". Bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha (#7352), commit 49dd5ef3 on 7 Nov 2012. --- changes/bug18089 | 6 ++++++ src/common/crypto.c | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 changes/bug18089 diff --git a/changes/bug18089 b/changes/bug18089 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c1fb342f77 --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/bug18089 @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ + o Minor fixes (security): + - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer + or zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. + Closes bug #18089. Reported by "gk", patch by "teor". + Bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha (#7352), + commit 49dd5ef3 on 7 Nov 2012. diff --git a/src/common/crypto.c b/src/common/crypto.c index 218c7bea1e..4e0b38372d 100644 --- a/src/common/crypto.c +++ b/src/common/crypto.c @@ -3012,6 +3012,7 @@ base32_decode(char *dest, size_t destlen, const char *src, size_t srclen) /** * Destroy the sz bytes of data stored at mem, setting them to * the value byte. + * If mem is NULL or sz is zero, nothing happens. * * This function is preferable to memset, since many compilers will happily * optimize out memset() when they can convince themselves that the data being @@ -3029,6 +3030,13 @@ base32_decode(char *dest, size_t destlen, const char *src, size_t srclen) void memwipe(void *mem, uint8_t byte, size_t sz) { + if (mem == NULL || sz == 0) { + return; + } + + /* Data this large is likely to be an underflow. */ + tor_assert(sz < SIZE_T_CEILING); + /* Because whole-program-optimization exists, we may not be able to just * have this function call "memset". A smart compiler could inline it, then * eliminate dead memsets, and declare itself to be clever. */