X.509: fix printing uninitialized stack memory when OID is empty

From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>

Callers of sprint_oid() do not check its return value before printing the result. In the case where the OID is zero-length, -EBADMSG was being returned without anything being written to the buffer, resulting in uninitialized stack memory being printed. Fix this by writing "(empty)" to the buffer in that case.

---
 lib/oid_registry.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

index 5a75d127995d..3640170f0d65 100644
@@ -115,8 +115,10 @@ int sprint_oid(const void *data, size_t datasize, char *buffer, size_t bufsize)
 	size_t ret;
 	int count;
 
-	if (v >= end)
+	if (v >= end) {
+		snprintf(buffer, bufsize, "(empty)");
 		return -EBADMSG;
+	}
 
 	n = *v++;
 	ret = count = snprintf(buffer, bufsize, "%u.%u", n / 40, n % 40);

2.15.0

I wonder if all -EBADMSG returns here should just print "(badoid)" into the buffer.

David

Hi David,

I don't really care either way; it's just a question of whether it's better to truncate the bad part, or print a special value. If you prefer the latter here is a revised patch to consider. (I went with "(bad)" instead of "(badoid)" because the callers already label the string as an OID.):

---8<---

From 5a68ec1afd819e145446a97268bd790f9f3226b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:47:42 -0800
Subject: [PATCH v2] X.509: fix printing uninitialized stack memory when OID is
empty

Callers of sprint_oid() do not check its return value before printing the result. In the case where the OID is zero-length, -EBADMSG was being returned without anything being written to the buffer, resulting in uninitialized stack memory being printed. Fix this by writing "(bad)" to the buffer in the cases where -EBADMSG is returned.

---
 lib/oid_registry.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

index 41b9e50711a7..b5f7d9986be1 100644
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ int sprint_oid(const void *data, size_t datasize, char *buffer, size_t bufsize)
 	int count;
 
 	if (v >= end)
-		return -EBADMSG;
+		goto bad;
 
 	n = *v++;
 	ret = count = snprintf(buffer, bufsize, "%u.%u", n / 40, n % 40);

@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ int sprint_oid(const void *data, size_t datasize, char *buffer, size_t bufsize)
 			num = n & 0x7f;
 			do {
 				if (v >= end)
-					return -EBADMSG;
+					goto bad;
 				n = *v++;
 				num <<= 7;
 				num |= n & 0x7f;

@@ -148,6 +148,10 @@ int sprint_oid(const void *data, size_t datasize, char *buffer, size_t bufsize)
 	}
 
 	return ret;
+
+bad:
+	snprintf(buffer, bufsize, "(bad)");
+	return -EBADMSG;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sprint_oid);
 

2.15.0.417.g466bffb3ac-goog