CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: [email protected] 2023/06/23 04:48:40
Modified files:
lib/libcrypto/bn: bn_convert.c
Log message:
Avoid crash in BN_asc2bn()
Historically (and currently in OpenSSL), BN_asc2bn() could be called with
NULL, but only for positive numbers. So BN_asc2bn(NULL, "1") would succeed
but BN_asc2bn(NULL, "-1"), would crash. The other *2bn functions return a
length, so accepting a NULL makes some sense since it allows callers to
skip over part of the string just parsed (atoi-style).
For BN_asc2bn() a NULL bn makes no sense because it returns a boolean. The
recent CBS rewrite makes BN_asc2bn(NULL, *) always crash which in turn made
Coverity throw a fit.
Another change of behavior from that rewrite pertains to accidents (or is
it madness?) like -0x-11 and 0x-11 being parsed as decimal -17 (which Ingo
of course spotted and diligently documented). This will be addressed later.
ok jsing
