Eric Biggers <ebigg...@kernel.org> wrote: > From: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com> > > When the user-provided IV buffer is not aligned to the algorithm's > alignmask, skcipher_walk_virt() allocates an aligned buffer and copies > the IV into it. However, skcipher_walk_virt() can fail after that > point, and in this case the buffer will be freed. > > This causes a use-after-free read in callers that read from walk->iv > unconditionally, e.g. the LRW template. For example, this can be > reproduced by trying to encrypt fewer than 16 bytes using "lrw(aes)".
This looks like a bug in LRW. Relying on walk->iv to be set to anything after a failed skcipher_walk_virt call is wrong. So we should fix it there instead. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
