Fwd: mpi_set_secure leads to heap corruption

Andreas Metzler ametzler at bebt.de
Tue Jul 4 19:34:21 CEST 2017


On 2017-07-04 NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe at fsij.org> wrote:
[...]
> Fixed both for master and LIBGCRYPT-1-7-BRANCH.
[...]
> While there is the API, I don't know the real use case.  So, I did
> search:

>     https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=mpi_set_flag.*GCRYMPI_FLAG_SECURE

> and seccure-0.5_1 has use cases.  Since all use cases are gcry_mpi_scan
> then gcry_mpi_set_flag, I think that those cases are safe for heap
> corruption.

Thanks. Supersonic fix + checking for amount of actual breakage. :-)



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