Fix some invalid use of sscanf

sscanf can return -1 on an empty input string. We need to appropriately
handle such an invalid case.

The instance in OSSL_HTTP_parse_url could cause an uninitialised read of
sizeof(unsigned int) bytes (typically 4). In many cases this uninit read
will immediately fail on the following check (i.e. if the read value
>65535).

If the top 2 bytes of a 4 byte unsigned int are zero then the value will
be <=65535 and the uninitialised value will be returned to the caller and
could represent arbitrary data on the application stack.

The OpenSSL security team has assessed this issue and consider it to be
a bug only (i.e. not a CVE).

Reviewed-by: Todd Short <todd.short@me.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/22961)

(cherry picked from commit 322517d817ecb5c1a3a8b0e7e038fa146857b4d4)

diff --git a/apps/errstr.c b/apps/errstr.c
index 782705a78a33d27d0139ae7dbaa4fa86b4ad9505..21349d21cb4207436dcfc2db95e193e4e925e0e7 100644 (file)
--- a/apps/errstr.c
+++ b/apps/errstr.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ int errstr_main(int argc, char **argv)
     /* All remaining arg are error code. */
     ret = 0;
     for (argv = opt_rest(); *argv != NULL; argv++) {
-        if (sscanf(*argv, "%lx", &l) == 0) {
+        if (sscanf(*argv, "%lx", &l) <= 0) {
             ret++;
         } else {
             ERR_error_string_n(l, buf, sizeof(buf));

diff --git a/crypto/http/http_lib.c b/crypto/http/http_lib.c
index e45f60b7228746e4d7a6e296670fab25c9abbd2d..30c1cd04fc0052a92f2d9dc944706d0d0aeeba7a 100644 (file)
--- a/crypto/http/http_lib.c
+++ b/crypto/http/http_lib.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ int OSSL_parse_url(const char *url, char **pscheme, char **puser, char **phost,
         port = ++p;
     /* remaining port spec handling is also done for the default values */
     /* make sure a decimal port number is given */
-    if (!sscanf(port, "%u", &portnum) || portnum > 65535) {
+    if (sscanf(port, "%u", &portnum) <= 0 || portnum > 65535) {
         ERR_raise_data(ERR_LIB_HTTP, HTTP_R_INVALID_PORT_NUMBER, "%s", port);
         goto err;
     }