[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] openssl: fix not clearing big numbers after computations

Trahe, Fiona fiona.trahe at intel.com
Thu Feb 7 16:27:01 CET 2019



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kusztal, ArkadiuszX
> Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2019 10:55 AM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: akhil.goyal at nxp.com; Trahe, Fiona <fiona.trahe at intel.com>; shally.verma at caviumnetworks.com;
> sunila.sahu at caviumnetworks.com; ashish.gupta at caviumnetworks.com; Kusztal, ArkadiuszX
> <arkadiuszx.kusztal at intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] openssl: fix not clearing big numbers after computations
> 
> After performing mod exp and mod inv big numbers (BIGNUM) should
> be cleared as data already is copied into op fields and this BNs would
> very likely contain private information for unspecified amount of time
> (duration of the session).
> 
> Fixes: 3e9d6bd447fb ("crypto/openssl: add RSA and mod asym operations")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arek Kusztal <arkadiuszx.kusztal at intel.com>
Acked-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe at intel.com>


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