[PATCH v1 3/3] lib: aes: reject an unciphered size larger than the ciphertext

Pranav Rajendran <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
Message-ID <20260815220754.11724-4-pranavkasthuri__9271.40102009929$1786834147$gmane$org@gmail.com>
image_aes_decrypt() allocates cipher_len bytes, decrypts into them, and
then reports the plaintext length to its caller as
info->size_unciphered, without relating the two. size_unciphered comes
from the image's 'data-size-unciphered' property, so an image can claim
a plaintext larger than the buffer that was allocated for it.

fit_image_uncipher() propagates that length as the image size, and
everything downstream - the load, the copy to the entry point - works
from it, reading up to 4 GiB past the end of the decrypted buffer.

Unlike the image data itself, 'data-size-unciphered' is not covered by
the per-image hash or signature, so this is reachable on a signed FIT
whose signature still verifies.

Decryption produces exactly cipher_len bytes, so require the claimed
size to fit within that.

Fixes: 4df3578119b0 ("u-boot: fit: add support to decrypt fit with aes")
Signed-off-by: Pranav Rajendran <[email protected]>
---
 lib/aes/aes-decrypt.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/aes/aes-decrypt.c b/lib/aes/aes-decrypt.c
index 85773a9c4f6..5d616983082 100644
--- a/lib/aes/aes-decrypt.c
+++ b/lib/aes/aes-decrypt.c
@@ -27,6 +27,15 @@ int image_aes_decrypt(struct image_cipher_info *info,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Decryption produces exactly cipher_len bytes, so the unciphered
+	 * size the image claims cannot be larger than that.
+	 */
+	if (info->size_unciphered > cipher_len) {
+		printf("Invalid unciphered size\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	*data = malloc(cipher_len);
 	if (!*data) {
 		printf("Can't allocate memory to decrypt\n");
-- 
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)
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