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Claudius Heine commented on THRIFT-1844:
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Why not use "string::assign(size_t n, char c)" or memset on the char-array
(const cast)?
> Password string not cleared
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>
> Key: THRIFT-1844
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-1844
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: C++ - Library
> Affects Versions: 0.9
> Environment: SSL connection with authentication
> Reporter: Alexis Wilke
>
> The function handling the SSL password receives a memory copy of the password
> which is then passed down to the OpenSSL library. The intermediate buffer
> used to get the password is not cleared one used up.
> This is a (rather low) security issue in case a memory scraper was used. The
> buffer should be cleared once not necessary anymore.
> The current function (in 0.9.0) looks like this:
> int TSSLSocketFactory::passwordCallback(char* password,
> int size,
> int,
> void* data) {
> TSSLSocketFactory* factory = (TSSLSocketFactory*)data;
> string userPassword;
> factory->getPassword(userPassword, size);
> int length = userPassword.size();
> if (length > size) {
> length = size;
> }
> strncpy(password, userPassword.c_str(), length);
> return length;
> }
> After the strncpy() I would suggest something like this:
> for(int i(userPassword.size()); i >= 0; --i) {
> userPassword[i] = '*';
> }
> Note that we cannot use the variable size because it gets modified and thus
> does not represent the whole password size at that point.
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