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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2017-02-07 08:34:08 -0500
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2017-02-07 08:34:08 -0500
commit332543baedcf651b75722e5d4626c62fdd24ef60 (patch)
treec73f1d6eabdf19e30061d047cdd6a84574c90b9a
parent640b4022324c19cf330a26b8d42b6bf7707346ce (diff)
parent6cb8c0fd4e9c544710b1ad72a695feb87a1d7ee7 (diff)
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Merge branch 'maint-0.2.4' into maint-0.2.5
-rw-r--r--changes/bug180896
-rw-r--r--src/common/crypto.c10
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
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 f4e86683d9..43bf5bd6b6 100644
--- a/src/common/crypto.c
+++ b/src/common/crypto.c
@@ -3056,6 +3056,7 @@ secret_to_key(char *key_out, size_t key_out_len, const char *secret,
/**
* Destroy the <b>sz</b> bytes of data stored at <b>mem</b>, setting them to
* the value <b>byte</b>.
+ * If <b>mem</b> is NULL or <b>sz</b> 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
@@ -3073,6 +3074,15 @@ secret_to_key(char *key_out, size_t key_out_len, const char *secret,
void
memwipe(void *mem, uint8_t byte, size_t sz)
{
+ if (sz == 0) {
+ return;
+ }
+ /* If sz is nonzero, then mem must not be NULL. */
+ tor_assert(mem != NULL);
+
+ /* 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. */