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fix(auth): avoid out-of-bounds read in auth_nvctr()
auth_nvctr() does not check that the buffer provided is long enough to
hold an ASN.1 INTEGER, or even that the buffer is non-empty. Since
auth_nvctr() will only ever read 6 bytes, it is possible to read up to
6 bytes past the end of the buffer.
This out-of-bounds read turns out to be harmless. The only caller of
auth_nvctr() always passes a pointer into an X.509 TBSCertificate, and
all in-tree chains of trust require that the certificate’s signature has
already been validated. This means that the signature algorithm
identifier is at least 4 bytes and the signature itself more than that.
Therefore, the data read will be from the certificate itself. Even if
the certificate signature has not been validated, an out-of-bounds read
is still not possible. Since there are at least two bytes (tag and
length) in both the signature algorithm ID and the signature itself, an
out-of-bounds read would require that the tag byte of the signature
algorithm ID would need to be either the tag or length byte of the
DER-encoded nonvolatile counter. However, this byte must be
(MBEDTLS_ASN1_CONSTRUCTED | MBEDTLS_ASN1_SEQUENCE) (0x30), which is
greater than 4 and not equal to MBEDTLS_ASN1_INTEGER (2). Therefore,
auth_nvctr() will error out before reading the integer itself,
preventing an out-of-bounds read.
Change-Id: Ibdf1af702fbeb98a94c0c96456ebddd3d392ad44
Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>
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