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)

diff --git a/crypto/ec/ec_ameth.c b/crypto/ec/ec_ameth.c
index a899932ee19b77820df2cab35f7a7b8bffacc216..9792007a20014ae08f5200b90ef350b59057cb8c 100644 (file)
--- a/crypto/ec/ec_ameth.c
+++ b/crypto/ec/ec_ameth.c
@@ -171,6 +171,8 @@ 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;
@@ -311,6 +313,8 @@ 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