Re: [PATCH] X.509: fix printing uninitialized stack memory when OID is empty

[Eric Biggers]

Hi David,

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:03:54AM +, David Howells wrote:
> I wonder if all -EBADMSG returns here should just print "(badoid)" into the
> buffer.
> 

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 
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.

Fixes: 4f73175d0375 ("X.509: Add utility functions to render OIDs as strings")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers 
---
 lib/oid_registry.c | 8 ++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/oid_registry.c b/lib/oid_registry.c
index 41b9e50711a7..b5f7d9986be1 100644
--- a/lib/oid_registry.c
+++ b/lib/oid_registry.c
@@ -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

Re: [PATCH] X.509: fix printing uninitialized stack memory when OID is empty

[David Howells]

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

David