Bug in set/change password client library

[Jeffrey Altman]

On 5/4/2011 11:08 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> There's a bug in the set/change password client library in at least
> Kerberos 1.9 with the parsing of a reply from a server if the reply is
> longer than 255 bytes.  In src/lib/krb5/krb/chpw.c around line 382, there
> is code to parse the two-byte message length from the decrypted packet:
> 
>         /*
>         ** validate the message length -
>         ** length is big endian
>         */
>         message_length = (((ptr[0] << 8)&0xff) | (ptr[1]&0xff));
>         ptr += 2;
>         /*
>         ** make sure the message length and packet length agree -
>         */
>         if (message_length != packet->length)
>             return(KRB5KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED);
> 
> That first part was supposed to be ((ptr[0] & 0xff) << 8) instead.  It
> looks like this bug has been there since the initial protocol contribution
> for the set password protocol.  The version number and AP-REP parsing all
> also have the same problem, but they're much less likely to be that long.
> 
> The result is that if the error reply is long enough to make the total
> message length more than 255, an error of KRB5KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED is
> always returned rather than the correct password change error.

The error is not just on that line.  The error is repeated for
meesage_length, version_number, ap_rep.length, and *result_code within
krb5int_rd_setpw_rep().

Jeffrey Altman


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