[PATCH 5/5] X.509: Handle midnight alternative notation in GeneralizedTime

[David Howells]

The ASN.1 GeneralizedTime object carries an ISO8601 format date and time.
The time is permitted to show midnight as 00:00 or 24:00 (the latter being
equivalent of 00:00 of the following day).

The permitted value is checked in x509_decode_time() but the actual
handling is left to mktime64().

Without this patch, certain X.509 certificates will be rejected and could
lead to an unbootable kernel.

Reported-by: Rudolf Polzer <rpolzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---

 crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c |   12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c
index 9be2caebc57b..b9de251c419c 100644
--- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c
+++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ int x509_decode_time(time64_t *_t,  size_t hdrlen,
 	static const unsigned char month_lengths[] = { 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30,
 						       31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31 };
 	const unsigned char *p = value;
-	unsigned year, mon, day, hour, min, sec, mon_len, max_sec;
+	unsigned year, mon, day, hour, min, sec, mon_len, max_sec, max_hour;
 
 #define dec2bin(X) ({ unsigned char x = (X) - '0'; if (x > 9) goto invalid_time; x; })
 #define DD2bin(P) ({ unsigned x = dec2bin(P[0]) * 10 + dec2bin(P[1]); P += 2; x; })
@@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ int x509_decode_time(time64_t *_t,  size_t hdrlen,
 		else
 			year += 2000;
 		max_sec = 59;
+		max_hour = 23;
 	} else if (tag == ASN1_GENTIM) {
 		/* GenTime: YYYYMMDDHHMMSSZ */
 		if (vlen != 15)
@@ -520,6 +521,7 @@ int x509_decode_time(time64_t *_t,  size_t hdrlen,
 		if (year >= 1950 && year <= 2049)
 			goto invalid_time;
 		max_sec = 60; /* ISO 8601 permits leap seconds [X.680 46.3] */
+		max_hour = 24;
 	} else {
 		goto unsupported_time;
 	}
@@ -550,11 +552,17 @@ int x509_decode_time(time64_t *_t,  size_t hdrlen,
 	}
 
 	if (day < 1 || day > mon_len ||
-	    hour > 23 ||
+	    hour > max_hour ||
 	    min > 59 ||
 	    sec > max_sec)
 		goto invalid_time;
 
+	/* GeneralizedTime, encoded as ISO 8601, also permits 24:00 today as an
+	 * alternative for 00:00 tomorrow.
+	 */
+	if (hour == 24 && (min != 0 || sec != 0))
+		goto invalid_time;
+
 	*_t = mktime64(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec);
 	return 0;
 

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