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authorPauli <paul.dale@oracle.com>2018-10-26 10:54:58 +1000
committerPauli <paul.dale@oracle.com>2018-10-29 08:05:06 +1000
commit56fb454d281a023b3f950d969693553d3f3ceea1 (patch)
treea9f25f5566990c1bd92bba813d5ac8d576ace41c /crypto
parentef11e19d1365eea2b1851e6f540a0bf365d303e7 (diff)
Timing vulnerability in ECDSA signature generation (CVE-2018-0735)
Preallocate an extra limb for some of the big numbers to avoid a reallocation that can potentially provide a side channel. Reviewed-by: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7486) (cherry picked from commit 99540ec79491f59ed8b46b4edf130e17dc907f52)
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto')
-rw-r--r--crypto/ec/ec_mult.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/ec/ec_mult.c b/crypto/ec/ec_mult.c
index 22bb30ffa1..ff882cce20 100644
--- a/crypto/ec/ec_mult.c
+++ b/crypto/ec/ec_mult.c
@@ -177,8 +177,8 @@ static int ec_mul_consttime(const EC_GROUP *group, EC_POINT *r,
*/
cardinality_bits = BN_num_bits(cardinality);
group_top = bn_get_top(cardinality);
- if ((bn_wexpand(k, group_top + 1) == NULL)
- || (bn_wexpand(lambda, group_top + 1) == NULL))
+ if ((bn_wexpand(k, group_top + 2) == NULL)
+ || (bn_wexpand(lambda, group_top + 2) == NULL)) {
goto err;
if (!BN_copy(k, scalar))
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static int ec_mul_consttime(const EC_GROUP *group, EC_POINT *r,
* k := scalar + 2*cardinality
*/
kbit = BN_is_bit_set(lambda, cardinality_bits);
- BN_consttime_swap(kbit, k, lambda, group_top + 1);
+ BN_consttime_swap(kbit, k, lambda, group_top + 2);
group_top = bn_get_top(group->field);
if ((bn_wexpand(s->X, group_top) == NULL)