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-rw-r--r--src/common/crypto.c8
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/changes/bug18089 b/changes/bug18089
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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 925beb3529..f91391780a 100644
--- a/src/common/crypto.c
+++ b/src/common/crypto.c
@@ -2972,6 +2972,7 @@ 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
@@ -2989,6 +2990,13 @@ 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 (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. */