crypto

LibreSSL libcrypto Audit Findings

Security audit of LibreSSL's libcrypto, the cryptography library underneath libssl. Each finding includes a detailed write-up and a patch.

Summary

Total findings: 37 -- High: 24, Medium: 13

Findings

Entropy and CSPRNG seeding

#	Finding	Severity
008	getentropy succeeds with non-OS fallback entropy (AIX)	High
009	getentropy falls back to non-OS entropy (HP-UX)	High
010	getentropy succeeds after entropy sources fail (Linux)	High
011	Entropy source fails open to system-state hash (macOS)	High
012	getentropy succeeds after kernel entropy failure (Solaris)	High

X.509 path validation

#	Finding	Severity
003	IP verifier accepts trailing garbage	High
004	Delta CRL can satisfy full revocation coverage	High
006	Inherited ASID skips issuer resource absence	High
007	Wrong-purpose certificates pass verification	High
033	Embedded NUL bypasses DNS name constraints	High
034	Embedded NUL bypasses email name constraints	High
035	Invalid certificates can pass CA-purpose check	High

ASN.1 encoding and decoding

#	Finding	Severity
013	Empty CSR attribute set dereferences NULL	Medium
018	Multipart boundary accepts prefixed delimiter lines	Medium
020	Sequence length signed integer overflow	High
021	Set-of length signed integer overflow	High
024	UTF8 output length counter overflows	Medium
025	Terminator byte addition overflows allocation size	Medium

Symmetric cipher modes

#	Finding	Severity
015	Unchecked CFB state indexes past IV	High
029	CBC decrypt reads past partial trailing ciphertext	Medium
030	Zero-length GCM tag authenticates successfully	High

RSA

#	Finding	Severity
032	Copied RSA-PSS contexts drop verification restrictions	High
041	ASN.1 OCTET STRING signatures accept trailing bytes	High

CMS

#	Finding	Severity
014	PWRI unwrap reads past short stream-cipher encrypted keys	High
027	Signer info retains freed pkey context	Medium

Legacy ciphers

#	Finding	Severity
022	High-bit salt indexes past con_salt (DES)	Medium
028	Zero-bit CFB causes infinite loop (DES)	Medium
038	Negative key length writes before key schedule (RC2)	High
039	Out-of-range OFB num leaks stack byte (RC2)	Medium

Big numbers and key derivation

#	Finding	Severity
001	Constant-time modular exponentiation downgrades on even moduli	High
002	Negative PBKDF2 key length becomes huge memcpy	High

Other public-key algorithms

#	Finding	Severity
019	Ed25519 accepts non-canonical public keys	High
023	SM2 C2 length overwrites plaintext buffer	High

Key and container formats

#	Finding	Severity
016	Failed safe repack is treated as success (PKCS12)	Medium
031	Encrypted PVK key length checked after eight-byte copy	Medium

Configuration and database parsers

#	Finding	Severity
005	Unbounded config line overflows buffer offset	Medium
042	Unbounded TXT_DB line growth exhausts memory	Medium