Security update for xml-security-c
Scott Cantor
cantor.2 at osu.edu
Sat Jul 25 22:20:20 UTC 2009
Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I'm not sure if this is entirely correct. Can't
>> mp_signedInfo->getHMACOutputLength() return a negative value?
>
> Hm, that's a good question. I can trace the value down atoi run on the
> result of an XML parse, but at that point I get lost in the code and can't
> figure out if negative numbers would have been rejected somewhere else.
The data type is broken in the surrounding code, which I couldn't fix in
this patch, but the parameter signature in the functions that actually use
it is an unsigned int.
-- Scott
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