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| -rw-r--r-- | src/key.cpp | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/key.cpp b/src/key.cpp index 7fcb17d574..2b25308fe5 100644 --- a/src/key.cpp +++ b/src/key.cpp @@ -383,7 +383,18 @@ bool CKey::Verify(uint256 hash, const std::vector<unsigned char>& vchSig) unsigned char *norm_der = NULL; ECDSA_SIG *norm_sig = ECDSA_SIG_new(); const unsigned char* sigptr = &vchSig[0]; - d2i_ECDSA_SIG(&norm_sig, &sigptr, vchSig.size()); + assert(norm_sig); + if (d2i_ECDSA_SIG(&norm_sig, &sigptr, vchSig.size()) == NULL) + { + /* As of OpenSSL 1.0.0p d2i_ECDSA_SIG frees and nulls the pointer on + * error. But OpenSSL's own use of this function redundantly frees the + * result. As ECDSA_SIG_free(NULL) is a no-op, and in the absence of a + * clear contract for the function behaving the same way is more + * conservative. + */ + ECDSA_SIG_free(norm_sig); + return false; + } int derlen = i2d_ECDSA_SIG(norm_sig, &norm_der); ECDSA_SIG_free(norm_sig); if (derlen <= 0) |