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authorEmilia Kasper <emilia@openssl.org>2015-09-02 15:31:28 +0200
committerEmilia Kasper <emilia@openssl.org>2015-09-17 19:48:14 +0200
commit3cdd1e94b1d71f2ce3002738f9506da91fe2af45 (patch)
tree0fc97f2792ce196b5486448aed1b2642a19bca21 /CHANGES
parent4bd16463b84efb13ce5fb35add284e284b0fd819 (diff)
RT3757: base64 encoding bugs
Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate. In particular: reject extra trailing padding, and padding in the middle of the content. Don't limit line length. Add tests. Previously, the behaviour was ill-defined, and depended on the position of the padding within the input. In addition, this appears to fix a possible two-byte oob read. Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Dr Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>
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Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 [xx XXX xxxx]
+ *) Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs.
+ This changes the decoding behaviour for some invalid messages,
+ though the change is mostly in the more lenient direction, and
+ legacy behaviour is preserved as much as possible.
+ [Emilia Käsper]
+
*) New testing framework
The testing framework has been largely rewritten and is now using
perl and the perl modules Test::Harness and an extended variant of