Re: [PATCH] crypto: ghash: Avoid null pointer dereference if no keyis set.

[Nick Bowler]

On 2011-10-14 10:37 -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> The ghash_update function passes a pointer to gf128mul_4k_lle which will
> be NULL if ghash_setkey is not called or if the most recent call to
> ghash_setkey failed to allocate memory.  This causes an oops.  Fix this
> up by returning an error code in the null case.
> 
> This is trivially triggered from unpriviliged userspace through the
> AF_ALG interface by simply writing to the socket without setting a key.

It looks like this can also happen in ghash_final if an evil user calls
setkey, update with a length that's not a multiple of the block size,
then setkey again (this time failing due to an allocation failure) then
final.  Thus, I suppose that final needs the same check.

v2 forthcoming...
-- 
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
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