[krbdev.mit.edu #6770] kg_unseal leads to overlap of source and desitination in memcpy...

Greg Hudson via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Mon Sep 13 20:31:39 EDT 2010


Mulling this one over still.

It's very unusual for callers to call krb5_[ck]_encrypt like this, since 
normally the output needs a larger buffer than the input.  In this use 
case, the enctype is raw-mode DES, so in-place encryption is sensical.  
There are four kg_encrypt call sites like this in the krb5 mech.

Possible solutions are:

1. Declare the callers at fault and change them.  This would be fairly 
easy since the encryptions are of fixed-length (16-byte) buffers.

2. Use memmove instead of memcpy, or check if input->data == output-
>ciphertext.data + header_len and elide the memcpy in that case.  This 
would allow aliasing of input and output in krb5_k_encrypt only for raw-
mode enctypes.

3. Allow aliasing for all enctypes somehow.  (I'm not sure if it worked 
for non-raw enctypes prior to 1.8.)

I am currently tempted to go with #1 since the other solutions have a 
performance impact on well-behaved callers.



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