Timing vulnerability in ECDSA signature generation (CVE-2018-0735)

Preallocate an extra limb for some of the big numbers to avoid a reallocation
that can potentially provide a side channel.

Reviewed-by: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7486)

(cherry picked from commit 99540ec794)
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Pauli
2018-10-26 10:54:58 +10:00
parent ef11e19d13
commit 56fb454d28

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@@ -177,8 +177,8 @@ static int ec_mul_consttime(const EC_GROUP *group, EC_POINT *r,
*/
cardinality_bits = BN_num_bits(cardinality);
group_top = bn_get_top(cardinality);
if ((bn_wexpand(k, group_top + 1) == NULL)
|| (bn_wexpand(lambda, group_top + 1) == NULL))
if ((bn_wexpand(k, group_top + 2) == NULL)
|| (bn_wexpand(lambda, group_top + 2) == NULL)) {
goto err;
if (!BN_copy(k, scalar))
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static int ec_mul_consttime(const EC_GROUP *group, EC_POINT *r,
* k := scalar + 2*cardinality
*/
kbit = BN_is_bit_set(lambda, cardinality_bits);
BN_consttime_swap(kbit, k, lambda, group_top + 1);
BN_consttime_swap(kbit, k, lambda, group_top + 2);
group_top = bn_get_top(group->field);
if ((bn_wexpand(s->X, group_top) == NULL)