[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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