From: Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com
Commit c7381b012872 ("crypto: akcipher - new verify API for public key algorithms") changed akcipher_alg::verify to take in both the signature and the actual hash and do the signature verification, rather than just return the hash expected by the signature as was the case before. To do this, it implemented a hack where the signature and hash are concatenated with each other in one scatterlist.
Obviously, for this to work correctly, akcipher_alg::verify needs to correctly extract the two items from the scatterlist it is given. Unfortunately, it doesn't correctly extract the hash in the case where the signature is longer than the RSA key size, as it assumes that the signature's length is equal to the RSA key size. This causes a prefix of the hash, or even the entire hash, to be taken from the *signature*.
(Note, the case of a signature longer than the RSA key size should not be allowed in the first place; a separate patch will fix that.)
It is unclear whether the resulting scheme has any useful security properties.
Fix this by correctly extracting the hash from the scatterlist.
Fixes: c7381b012872 ("crypto: akcipher - new verify API for public key algorithms") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.2+ Reviewed-by: Vitaly Chikunov vt@altlinux.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com --- crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c b/crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c index 1b35457814258..7b223adebabf6 100644 --- a/crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c +++ b/crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c @@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ static int pkcs1pad_verify_complete(struct akcipher_request *req, int err) sg_nents_for_len(req->src, req->src_len + req->dst_len), req_ctx->out_buf + ctx->key_size, - req->dst_len, ctx->key_size); + req->dst_len, req->src_len); /* Do the actual verification step. */ if (memcmp(req_ctx->out_buf + ctx->key_size, out_buf + pos, req->dst_len) != 0)