diff options
author | Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> | 2016-08-24 16:28:15 +0100 |
---|---|---|
committer | Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> | 2016-09-12 12:00:06 +0100 |
commit | a5d2f44d0d3e7523670e103a8c37faed29ff2b76 (patch) | |
tree | 605c0414b74ebd8bdea7a31fde1da0205a056be0 /HACKING | |
parent | c2a57aae9a1c3dd7de77daf5478df10379aeeebf (diff) |
crypto: ensure XTS is only used with ciphers with 16 byte blocks
The XTS cipher mode needs to be used with a cipher which has
a block size of 16 bytes. If a mis-matching block size is used,
the code will either corrupt memory beyond the IV array, or
not fully encrypt/decrypt the IV.
This fixes a memory corruption crash when attempting to use
cast5-128 with xts, since the former has an 8 byte block size.
A test case is added to ensure the cipher creation fails with
such an invalid combination.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'HACKING')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions