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krb5 commit: Fix unlikely null dereference in mk_cred()

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jun 25 15:30:59 2014

Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:30:51 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/476284de8dc9a52b5544445cb1b316a417ae88f0
commit 476284de8dc9a52b5544445cb1b316a417ae88f0
Author: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 25 12:56:42 2014 -0400

    Fix unlikely null dereference in mk_cred()
    
    If krb5_encrypt_keyhelper() returns an error, the ciphertext structure
    may contain a non-zero length, but it will already have freed the
    pointer to its data, making encrypt_credencpart()'s subsequent attempt
    to clear and free the memory fail.  Remove that logic.
    
    Based on a patch from Jatin Nansi.
    
    ticket: 7948 (new)
    target_version: 1.12.2
    tags: pullup

 src/lib/krb5/krb/mk_cred.c |    7 -------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/krb5/krb/mk_cred.c b/src/lib/krb5/krb/mk_cred.c
index a31d85c..7616c3a 100644
--- a/src/lib/krb5/krb/mk_cred.c
+++ b/src/lib/krb5/krb/mk_cred.c
@@ -49,13 +49,6 @@ encrypt_credencpart(krb5_context context, krb5_cred_enc_part *pcredpart,
                                   KRB5_KEYUSAGE_KRB_CRED_ENCPART, scratch,
                                   pencdata);
 
-    if (retval) {
-        memset(pencdata->ciphertext.data, 0, pencdata->ciphertext.length);
-        free(pencdata->ciphertext.data);
-        pencdata->ciphertext.length = 0;
-        pencdata->ciphertext.data = 0;
-    }
-
     memset(scratch->data, 0, scratch->length);
     krb5_free_data(context, scratch);
 
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