Re: [PATCH 1/1] digsig: Fix memory leakage in digsig_verify_rsa()

[James Morris]

What's the practical impact of this?  Could an attacker kill the machine?


On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Kasatkin, Dmitry wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Dmitry Kasatkin
> <dmitry.kasatkin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > digsig_verify_rsa() does not free kmalloc'ed buffer returned by
> > mpi_get_buffer().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > ---
> >  lib/digsig.c |    2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/digsig.c b/lib/digsig.c
> > index 8c0e629..dc2be7e 100644
> > --- a/lib/digsig.c
> > +++ b/lib/digsig.c
> > @@ -162,6 +162,8 @@ static int digsig_verify_rsa(struct key *key,
> >         memset(out1, 0, head);
> >         memcpy(out1 + head, p, l);
> >
> > +       kfree(p);
> > +
> >         err = pkcs_1_v1_5_decode_emsa(out1, len, mblen, out2, &len);
> >         if (err)
> >                 goto err;
> > --
> > 1.7.10.4
> >
> 
> James, can you please apply this patch.
> 
> - Dmitry
> 

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James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
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