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Bug #37595 last part of the string is lost at decoding
Submitted: 2006-05-25 23:49 UTC Modified: 2006-05-31 20:11 UTC
From: coditza at cluj dot astral dot ro Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: mcrypt related
PHP Version: 4.4.2 OS: windows
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-05-25 23:49 UTC] coditza at cluj dot astral dot ro 
Description:
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If the lenght of the encoded string is a multiple of chipher block size, the last blocksize part of the chipher is lost at decoding.

Reproduce code:
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Use the script at: http://www.coada.net/develop/crypt.phps to produce an encoded file, then, from shell:

openssl bf-cbc -in out.dat -out out.dec -K 000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f -iv 0102030405060708 -d

and

cat out.dec

Expected result:
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coditza@keep$
12345678qwertyui12345678coditza@keep$

Actual result:
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bad decrypt
31976:error:06065064:digital envelope routines:EVP_DecryptFinal:bad decrypt:/usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/crypto/evp/evp_enc.c:450:
coditza@keep$ cat out.dec
12345678qwertyuicoditza@keep$

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 [2006-05-29 13:07 UTC] coditza at cluj dot astral dot ro 
The example is for freebsd 6.0 actually, but the beavior is the same both on windows (with php4) and on freebsd (with php5)
 [2006-05-30 23:35 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Change
for($i=0;$i<$max;$i++) {
to
for($i=0;$i<=$max;$i++) {

Not PHP problem, just a user error.
 [2006-05-31 07:44 UTC] coditza at cluj dot astral dot ro 
Indeed, your sugestion fixed the thing, but that's just a work around. I added some debuing bits and here are 2 outputs:

string: 12345678qwertyui12345678g
0) Encoding: 12345678 - 7e0dc5b2ff23aca1
1) Encoding: qwertyui - eb3b6b54025c6347
2) Encoding: 12345678 - f258e8a6ab3003af
3) Encoding: g - 20d274568051c4e6
4) Encoding: - 43f92ddf945e42fc

string lenght is 25, ceil(25/8) = 4, the for loop you sugested is "processing" an aditional empty part of the string. 

Again, this is a workaround, not a fix/user error. Please fix the library or point out in the docs that for a succesfull crypt you need to use this thinghy.

Thanks
 [2006-05-31 08:43 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Please, fix your code, there is nothing wrong neither with mcrypt library nor with PHP.
 [2006-05-31 12:08 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

Thank you for your resistance.
 [2006-05-31 20:11 UTC] derick@php.net 
There was nothing wrong here, so I reverted the patch. Openssl is behaving badly. Try the test vectors from http://www.schneier.com/code/vectors.txt and you will see. I also updated our testcases with this.
 
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