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regarding m2crypto: openssl return values.
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Package: m2crypto
Severity: important
Tags: security
Hi,
I've been checking packages to see if they properly check the return
value of some of the functions in openssl. Your package seems to
be calling a few of them:
In SWIG/_evp.i, in verify_final() there is a call to EVP_VerifyFinal
and just return that. M2Crypto/EVP.py seems to document that
as only returning 0 for failure but it can also return -1 on failure.
There are also calls to DSA_verify(), ECDSA_verify(), DSA_do_verify()
and ECDSA_do_verify() that seem to think that -1 means error,
and then return the return code. But 0 is also an error case.
For all the functions mentioned, 0 and -1 are errors, 1 mean success.
I have no idea how this is being used. I think this is being used
by other packages in Debian (dtc-xen, python-pyxmpp) that might
need to be checked instead.
Kurt
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Version: 0.46.2-3+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package m2crypto has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1127821
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