[PATCH v2] X.509: unpack RSA signatureValue field from BIT STRING

[PATCH v2] X.509: unpack RSA signatureValue field from BIT STRING

[Maciej S. Szmigiero]

The signatureValue field of a X.509 certificate is encoded as a BIT STRING.
For RSA signatures this BIT STRING is of so-called primitive subtype, which
contains a u8 prefix indicating a count of unused bits in the encoding.

We have to strip this prefix from signature data, just as we already do for
key data in x509_extract_key_data() function.

This wasn't noticed earlier because this prefix byte is zero for RSA key
sizes divisible by 8. Since BIT STRING is a big-endian encoding adding zero
prefixes has no bearing on its value.

The signature length, however was incorrect, which is a problem for RSA
implementations that need it to be exactly correct (like AMD CCP).

Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
Fixes: c26fd69fa009 ("X.509: Add a crypto key parser for binary (DER) X.509 certificates")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
This is a resend of a patch that was previously submitted in one series
with CCP driver changes since this particular patch should go through
the security (rather than crypto) tree.

Changes from v1: Change '!' to '== 0'.

 crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c
index 7d81e6bb461a..b6cabac4b62b 100644
--- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c
+++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c
@@ -249,6 +249,15 @@ int x509_note_signature(void *context, size_t hdrlen,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	if (strcmp(ctx->cert->sig->pkey_algo, "rsa") == 0) {
+		/* Discard the BIT STRING metadata */
+		if (vlen < 1 || *(const u8 *)value != 0)
+			return -EBADMSG;
+
+		value++;
+		vlen--;
+	}
+
 	ctx->cert->raw_sig = value;
 	ctx->cert->raw_sig_size = vlen;
 	return 0;

Re: [PATCH v2] X.509: unpack RSA signatureValue field from BIT STRING

[Kamil Konieczny]

On 17.04.2018 15:39, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> The signatureValue field of a X.509 certificate is encoded as a BIT STRING.
> For RSA signatures this BIT STRING is of so-called primitive subtype, which
> contains a u8 prefix indicating a count of unused bits in the encoding.
> 
> We have to strip this prefix from signature data, just as we already do for
> key data in x509_extract_key_data() function.
> 
> This wasn't noticed earlier because this prefix byte is zero for RSA key
> sizes divisible by 8. Since BIT STRING is a big-endian encoding adding zero
> prefixes has no bearing on its value.
> 
> The signature length, however was incorrect, which is a problem for RSA
> implementations that need it to be exactly correct (like AMD CCP).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>

your e-mail address looks incorrect

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Best regards,
Kamil Konieczny
Samsung R&D Institute Poland

Re: [PATCH v2] X.509: unpack RSA signatureValue field from BIT STRING

[Maciej S. Szmigiero]

On 17.04.2018 17:07, Kamil Konieczny wrote:
> 
> 
> On 17.04.2018 15:39, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
>> The signatureValue field of a X.509 certificate is encoded as a BIT STRING.
>> For RSA signatures this BIT STRING is of so-called primitive subtype, which
>> contains a u8 prefix indicating a count of unused bits in the encoding.
>>
>> We have to strip this prefix from signature data, just as we already do for
>> key data in x509_extract_key_data() function.
>>
>> This wasn't noticed earlier because this prefix byte is zero for RSA key
>> sizes divisible by 8. Since BIT STRING is a big-endian encoding adding zero
>> prefixes has no bearing on its value.
>>
>> The signature length, however was incorrect, which is a problem for RSA
>> implementations that need it to be exactly correct (like AMD CCP).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
> 
> your e-mail address looks incorrect
> 
> [...]
> 

What's wrong with it?

Maciej