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Segmentation fault with 3072-bit key signatures in ARC-Seal headers #183

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Hi, I was having some crashes and segfaults with some ARC-Seal headers. Upon investigation, I found that opendmarc crashes when trying to parse invalid ARC-Seal headers like this one:

"ARC-Seal: i=1; none"

opendmarc-arcseal.c:98: opendmarc_arcseal_strip_whitespace: Assertion `string != NULL' failed.
Aborted

This is due to the lack of a guard validation for the NULL value before calling the opendmarc_arcseal_strip_whitespace() function. I fixed this by putting the proper guard for the NULL value before calling the opendmarc_arcseal_strip_whitespace() function.

Another issue with ARC-Seal headers - this time with valid ones - causes opendmarc to crash with a segmentation fault, e.g.:

"ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=example.com; s=default; t=1624542288; cv=none; b=QUJDREVGR0hJS ... 512-byte or more ... XowMTIzNDU2Nz"
Segmentation fault

This is due to signatures produced by keys >= 3072-bit. The 512-byte value defined for "OPENDMARC_ARCSEAL_MAX_TOKEN_LEN" and "OPENDMARC_ARCSEAL_MAX_LONG_VALUE_LEN" is not enough to contain these signatures. When the opendmarc_arcseal_strip_whitespace() function (again) gets a token value with a length greater than this, it returns NULL. Without any guard, this NULL value is then passed to strlcpy function that then segfaults. I fixed this by putting the proper guard for the NULL value before strlcpy.

As IETF RFC 8301 states that verifiers MUST be able to validate signatures with keys ranging from 1024-bit to 4096-bit, I also changed the defines for "OPENDMARC_ARCSEAL_MAX_LONG_VALUE_LEN" and "OPENDMARC_ARCSEAL_MAX_TOKEN_LEN" (this one is used by opendmarc_arcseal_strip_whitespace() function) from 512-byte to 768-byte. This will be enough for signatures produced by 4096-bit keys.

The patch: opendmarc-arcseal.patch.txt

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