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From: Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
	 BAREBOX <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] lib: base64: Fix out-of-bounds potential by respecting dst_len
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:09:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251201-base64-bounds-v1-1-3ae2b2e8b7cb@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251201-base64-bounds-v1-0-3ae2b2e8b7cb@pengutronix.de>

__decode_base64 generally writes the input in 3 bytes increments,
corresponding to 4 bytes increments in the base64 input buffer. This
means that in order to respect dst_len as the size of the output buffer,
the case of exceeding dst_len within a loop iteration must be
considered.

In such a case, refrain from writing the last one or two bytes if that
write would be past dst_len.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>
---
 lib/base64.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/base64.c b/lib/base64.c
index d5ab217528..3e29f0a56c 100644
--- a/lib/base64.c
+++ b/lib/base64.c
@@ -163,19 +163,19 @@ static int __decode_base64(char *p_dst, int dst_len, const char *src, bool url)
 		 */
 		if (count > 1)
 			*dst++ = six_bit[0] << 2 | six_bit[1] >> 4;
-		if (count > 2)
+		if (count > 2 && dst_len > 1)
 			*dst++ = six_bit[1] << 4 | six_bit[2] >> 2;
-		if (count > 3)
+		if (count > 3 && dst_len > 2)
 			*dst++ = six_bit[2] << 6 | six_bit[3];
+		/* last character was "=" */
+		if (count != 0)
+			length += min(count - 1, dst_len);
 		/*
 		 * Note that if we decode "AA==" and ate first '=',
 		 * we just decoded one char (count == 2) and now we'll
 		 * do the loop once more to decode second '='.
 		 */
 		dst_len -= count-1;
-		/* last character was "=" */
-		if (count != 0)
-			length += count - 1;
 	}
 ret:
 	p_dst = dst;

-- 
2.51.2.535.g419c72cb8a




  reply	other threads:[~2025-12-01 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-01 14:09 [PATCH 0/2] Fix out-of-bounds potential in decode_base64 and add regression tests Jonas Rebmann
2025-12-01 14:09 ` Jonas Rebmann [this message]
2025-12-01 14:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] test: self: add base64 selftests Jonas Rebmann

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