[PATCH] dh key: fix rounding up KDF output length

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Fri Jun 8 15:37:58 UTC 2018


Eric Biggers <ebiggers3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Commit 383203eff718 ("dh key: get rid of stack allocated array") changed
> kdf_ctr() to assume that the length of key material to derive is a
> multiple of the digest size.  The length was supposed to be rounded up
> accordingly.  However, the round_up() macro was used which only gives
> the correct result on power-of-2 arguments, whereas not all hash
> algorithms have power-of-2 digest sizes.  In some cases this resulted in
> a write past the end of the 'outbuf' buffer.
> 
> Fix it by switching to roundup(), which works for non-power-of-2 inputs.

Applied.
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