Avoid EVP_PKEY_cmp() crash on EC keys without public component

Some hardware devices don't provide the public EC_POINT data. The only
way for X509_check_private_key() to validate that the key matches a
given certificate is to actually perform a sign operation and then
verify it using the public key in the certificate.

Maybe that can come later, as discussed in issue 1532. But for now let's
at least make it fail gracefully and not crash.

GH: 1532

Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/1547)
(cherry picked from commit 92ed7fa575a80955f3bb6efefca9bf576a953586)

diff --git a/crypto/ec/ec_ameth.c b/crypto/ec/ec_ameth.c
index 61a97f6b6f98b6c30804408dd3ba06d804a62638..d089af7a28300b3de03523a2a606426cdbbeb827 100644 (file)
--- a/crypto/ec/ec_ameth.c
+++ b/crypto/ec/ec_ameth.c
@@ -224,6 +224,8 @@ static int eckey_pub_cmp(const EVP_PKEY *a, const EVP_PKEY *b)
     const EC_GROUP *group = EC_KEY_get0_group(b->pkey.ec);
     const EC_POINT *pa = EC_KEY_get0_public_key(a->pkey.ec),
         *pb = EC_KEY_get0_public_key(b->pkey.ec);
+    if (group == NULL || pa == NULL || pb == NULL)
+        return -2;
     r = EC_POINT_cmp(group, pa, pb, NULL);
     if (r == 0)
         return 1;
@@ -394,6 +396,8 @@ static int ec_cmp_parameters(const EVP_PKEY *a, const EVP_PKEY *b)
 {
     const EC_GROUP *group_a = EC_KEY_get0_group(a->pkey.ec),
         *group_b = EC_KEY_get0_group(b->pkey.ec);
+    if (group_a == NULL || group_b == NULL)
+        return -2;
     if (EC_GROUP_cmp(group_a, group_b, NULL))
         return 0;
     else