Pass a temporary pointer to o2i_SCT_signature from SCT_new_from_base64
authorRob Percival <robpercival@google.com>
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 14:38:20 +0000 (15:38 +0100)
committerRob Percival <robpercival@google.com>
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 13:43:36 +0000 (13:43 +0000)
Otherwise, |dec| gets moved past the end of the signature by
o2i_SCT_signature and then can't be correctly freed afterwards.

Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/1548)

crypto/ct/ct_b64.c

index 636ac4f5d24ddff30e5b589008668d7554f02ad4..f0bf3aff29d2686d2e0945149b85c35baa072e96 100644 (file)
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ SCT *SCT_new_from_base64(unsigned char version, const char *logid_base64,
 {
     SCT *sct = SCT_new();
     unsigned char *dec = NULL;
+    const unsigned char* p = NULL;
     int declen;
 
     if (sct == NULL) {
@@ -102,7 +103,9 @@ SCT *SCT_new_from_base64(unsigned char version, const char *logid_base64,
         CTerr(CT_F_SCT_NEW_FROM_BASE64, X509_R_BASE64_DECODE_ERROR);
         goto err;
     }
-    if (o2i_SCT_signature(sct, (const unsigned char **)&dec, declen) <= 0)
+
+    p = dec;
+    if (o2i_SCT_signature(sct, &p, declen) <= 0)
         goto err;
     OPENSSL_free(dec);
     dec = NULL;