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authorWerner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>1998-07-09 13:37:05 +0000
committerWerner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>1998-07-09 13:37:05 +0000
commit82a03a214a2ddc00a68a215158fbbad86e85678c (patch)
tree6a022c025c8f21ab75821397da7308f5513e30f0 /cipher
parent1bb8ca57ffc47f1d0194497eeab2089f94cf5c6d (diff)
downloadlibgcrypt-82a03a214a2ddc00a68a215158fbbad86e85678c.tar.gz
fixed severe exploit
Diffstat (limited to 'cipher')
-rw-r--r--cipher/ChangeLog9
-rw-r--r--cipher/dynload.c5
-rw-r--r--cipher/rmd160.c20
3 files changed, 33 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/cipher/ChangeLog b/cipher/ChangeLog
index 2e47f9a0..bee03492 100644
--- a/cipher/ChangeLog
+++ b/cipher/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+Thu Jul 9 13:01:14 1998 Werner Koch (wk@isil.d.shuttle.de)
+
+ * dynload.c (load_extension): Function now nbails out if
+ the program is run setuid.
+
+Wed Jul 8 18:58:23 1998 Werner Koch (wk@isil.d.shuttle.de)
+
+ * rmd160.c (rmd160_hash_buffer): New.
+
Thu Jul 2 10:50:30 1998 Werner Koch (wk@isil.d.shuttle.de)
* cipher.c (cipher_open): algos >=100 use standard CFB
diff --git a/cipher/dynload.c b/cipher/dynload.c
index e2273170..a8c01f25 100644
--- a/cipher/dynload.c
+++ b/cipher/dynload.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
#ifdef HAVE_DL_DLOPEN
#include <dlfcn.h>
#endif
@@ -109,7 +110,11 @@ load_extension( EXTLIST el )
int seq = 0;
int class, vers;
+ /* make sure we are not setuid */
+ if( getuid() != geteuid() )
+ log_bug("trying to load an extension while still setuid\n");
+ /* now that we are not setuid anymore, we can safely load modules */
el->handle = dlopen(el->name, RTLD_NOW);
if( !el->handle ) {
log_error("%s: error loading extension: %s\n", el->name, dlerror() );
diff --git a/cipher/rmd160.c b/cipher/rmd160.c
index e3817249..3b1702cb 100644
--- a/cipher/rmd160.c
+++ b/cipher/rmd160.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
#include "util.h"
#include "memory.h"
#include "rmd.h"
-
+#include "cipher.h" /* only used for the rmd160_hash_buffer() prototype */
/*********************************
* RIPEMD-160 is not patented, see (as of 25.10.97)
@@ -530,6 +530,24 @@ rmd160_read( RMD160_CONTEXT *hd )
return hd->buf;
}
+
+
+/****************
+ * Shortcut functions which puts the hash value of the supplied buffer
+ * into outbuf which must have a size of 20 bytes.
+ */
+void
+rmd160_hash_buffer( char *outbuf, const char *buffer, size_t length )
+{
+ RMD160_CONTEXT hd;
+
+ rmd160_init( &hd );
+ rmd160_write( &hd, (byte*)buffer, length );
+ rmd160_final( &hd );
+ memcpy( outbuf, hd.buf, 20 );
+}
+
+
/****************
* Return some information about the algorithm. We need algo here to
* distinguish different flavors of the algorithm.