On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 7:03 PM, David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Fix determination of whether an X.509 certificate is self-signed or not.
>
> It is currently assumed that a cert is self-signed if has no
> authorityKeyIdentifier or the authorityKeyIdentifier matches the
> subjectKeyIdentifier. However, it is possible to encounter a certificate
> that has neither AKID not SKID but is not self-signed.
>
> This symptoms of this show up as an attempt to load a certificate failing
> with -ERANGE or -EBADMSG, produced from the RSA module when the result of
> calculating "m = s^e mod n" is checked.
>
> To fix this, don't check to see if a certificate is self-signed if the
> Issuer and Subject names differ.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com>
> cc: David Woodhouse <david.woodho...@intel.com>
Should this also be Cc'd to stable?
josh
> ---
>
> crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c | 11 ++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c
> b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c
> index 2a44b3752471..6236e7996f19 100644
> --- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c
> +++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c
> @@ -313,9 +313,14 @@ static int x509_key_preparse(struct
> key_preparsed_payload *prep)
> cert->pub->id_type = PKEY_ID_X509;
>
> /* Check the signature on the key if it appears to be self-signed */
> - if ((!cert->akid_skid && !cert->akid_id) ||
> - asymmetric_key_id_same(cert->skid, cert->akid_skid) ||
> - asymmetric_key_id_same(cert->id, cert->akid_id)) {
> + if ((!cert->akid_skid && !cert->akid_id)) {
> + if (cert->raw_issuer_size == cert->raw_subject_size &&
> + memcmp(cert->raw_issuer, cert->raw_subject,
> + cert->raw_subject_size) == 0)
> + goto self_signed;
> + } else if (asymmetric_key_id_same(cert->skid, cert->akid_skid) ||
> + asymmetric_key_id_same(cert->id, cert->akid_id)) {
> +self_signed:
> ret = x509_check_signature(cert->pub, cert); /* self-signed */
> if (ret < 0)
> goto error_free_cert;
>
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