[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | aead_decrypt broken on armeb (#941)

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Mon Feb 17 23:16:28 CET 2020




Andrew Aladjev commented:


`lib/nettle/cipher.c`:

```
if (gnutls_memcmp(((uint8_t*)encr)+encr_size, tag, tag_size) != 0) {
  fprintf(stderr, "algo: %d\n", ctx->cipher->algo);
  return gnutls_assert_val(GNUTLS_E_DECRYPTION_FAILED);
}
```

This is the place where `GNUTLS_E_DECRYPTION_FAILED` was born. `algo` equals `11 GNUTLS_CIPHER_AES_256_GCM`.

```
static void
_gcm_decrypt(struct nettle_cipher_ctx *ctx, size_t length, uint8_t * dst,
		 const uint8_t * src)
{
	gcm_decrypt(GCM_CTX_GET_CTX(ctx->ctx_ptr), GCM_CTX_GET_KEY(ctx->ctx_ptr),
		    GCM_CTX_GET_CIPHER(ctx->ctx_ptr), ctx->cipher->encrypt_block,
		    length, dst, src);
}
```

This is the function called as `ctx->cipher->decrypt(ctx, encr_size, plain, encr);` before `gnutls_memcmp` in `lib/nettle/cipher.c`. This function comes from `nettle` library and it is broken.

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