Fix OCSP_basic_verify signer certificate validation

The function `OCSP_basic_verify` validates the signer certificate on an OCSP
response. The internal function, ocsp_verify_signer, is responsible for this
and is expected to return a 0 value in the event of a failure to verify.
Unfortunately, due to a bug, it actually returns with a postive success
response in this case. In the normal course of events OCSP_basic_verify
will then continue and will fail anyway in the ocsp_check_issuer function
because the supplied "chain" value will be empty in the case that
ocsp_verify_signer failed to verify the chain. This will cause
OCSP_basic_verify to return with a negative result (fatal error). Normally
in the event of a failure to verify it should return with 0.

However, in the case of the OCSP_NOCHECKS flag being used, OCSP_basic_verify
will return with a positvie result. This could lead to callers trusting an
OCSP Basic response when it should not be.

CVE-2022-1343

Fixes #18053

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/crypto/ocsp/ocsp_vfy.c b/crypto/ocsp/ocsp_vfy.c
index 7a4a45d537..3c5f48ec0a 100644
--- a/crypto/ocsp/ocsp_vfy.c
+++ b/crypto/ocsp/ocsp_vfy.c
@@ -59,9 +59,10 @@ static int ocsp_verify_signer(X509 *signer, int response,
 
     ret = X509_verify_cert(ctx);
     if (ret <= 0) {
-        ret = X509_STORE_CTX_get_error(ctx);
+        int err = X509_STORE_CTX_get_error(ctx);
+
         ERR_raise_data(ERR_LIB_OCSP, OCSP_R_CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_ERROR,
-                       "Verify error: %s", X509_verify_cert_error_string(ret));
+                       "Verify error: %s", X509_verify_cert_error_string(err));
         goto end;
     }
     if (chain != NULL)