[krbdev.mit.edu #9181] verify_mic_v3 broken in 1.22

Francis Dupont via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Sat Aug 16 22:31:30 EDT 2025


Sat Aug 16 22:31:29 2025: Request 9181 was acted upon.
 Transaction: Ticket created by fdupont at isc.org
       Queue: krb5
     Subject: verify_mic_v3 broken in 1.22
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: fdupont at isc.org
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: https://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=9181 >


The function verify_mic_v3() in src/lib/gssapi/krb5/verify_mic.c
calls kg_verify_checksum_v3() as it returns an OM_uint32 status
but kg_verify_checksum_v3() returns a krb5_boolean which has
the opposite interpretation:
 - OM_uint32 0 is GSS_S_COMPLETE so no error
 - krb5_boolean 0 is false so failure

There are at least two ways to fix this:
 - modify verify_mic_v3() body
 - kg_verify_checksum_v3() to return an OM_uint32 and update the other
   call in unwrap_v3() in src/lib/gssapi/krb5/unwap.c

Regards

Francis Dupont <fdupont at isc.org>

PS: this bug breaks unit tests checking the GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG of a GSS TSIG
code on FreeBSD and macOS two systems where 1.22 was installed.



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