consensus: guard against openssl's new strict DER checks

New versions of OpenSSL will reject non-canonical DER signatures. However,
it'll happily decode them. Decode then re-encode before verification in order
to ensure that it is properly consumed.

Github-Pull: #5634
Rebased-From: 488ed32f2a
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Cory Fields
2015-01-09 16:39:12 -05:00
committed by Wladimir J. van der Laan
parent 0a94661e8d
commit b8e81b7ccd

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@@ -227,10 +227,20 @@ public:
}
bool Verify(const uint256 &hash, const std::vector<unsigned char>& vchSig) {
// -1 = error, 0 = bad sig, 1 = good
if (ECDSA_verify(0, (unsigned char*)&hash, sizeof(hash), &vchSig[0], vchSig.size(), pkey) != 1)
// New versions of OpenSSL will reject non-canonical DER signatures. de/re-serialize first.
unsigned char *norm_der = NULL;
ECDSA_SIG *norm_sig = ECDSA_SIG_new();
const unsigned char* sigptr = &vchSig[0];
d2i_ECDSA_SIG(&norm_sig, &sigptr, vchSig.size());
int derlen = i2d_ECDSA_SIG(norm_sig, &norm_der);
ECDSA_SIG_free(norm_sig);
if (derlen <= 0)
return false;
return true;
// -1 = error, 0 = bad sig, 1 = good
bool ret = ECDSA_verify(0, (unsigned char*)&hash, sizeof(hash), norm_der, derlen, pkey) == 1;
OPENSSL_free(norm_der);
return ret;
}
bool SignCompact(const uint256 &hash, unsigned char *p64, int &rec) {