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encoding/asn1: weird error handling for parseBitString #29908

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gypsyfeng opened this issue Jan 23, 2019 · 2 comments
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encoding/asn1: weird error handling for parseBitString #29908

gypsyfeng opened this issue Jan 23, 2019 · 2 comments
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https://github.com/golang/go/blob/3813edf26edb78620632dc9c7d66096e5b2b5019/src/encoding/asn1/asn1.go

For the following code, error handling "invalid padding bits in BIT STRING" is confusing and doesn't look right. Many bitmap is just one byte long and definitely bigger than 0. Maybe I understand asn1's bit string wrong.

func parseBitString(bytes []byte) (ret BitString, err error) {
	if len(bytes) == 0 {
		err = SyntaxError{"zero length BIT STRING"}
		return
	}
	paddingBits := int(bytes[0])
	if paddingBits > 7 ||
		len(bytes) == 1 && paddingBits > 0 ||
		bytes[len(bytes)-1]&((1<<bytes[0])-1) != 0 {
		err = SyntaxError{"invalid padding bits in BIT STRING"}
		return
	}
	ret.BitLength = (len(bytes)-1)*8 - paddingBits
	ret.Bytes = bytes[1:]
	return
}
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bcmills commented Jan 29, 2019 •
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CC @FiloSottile @agl for encoding/asn1.

Please provide more detail: do you have an example of a specific input that produces an incorrect or misleading error?

Per the description at http://luca.ntop.org/Teaching/Appunti/asn1.html:

In a primitive encoding, the first contents octet gives the number of bits by which the length of the bit string is less than the next multiple of eight (this is called the "number of unused bits"). The second and following contents octets give the value of the bit string, converted to an octet string.

The condition in the code rejects:

  • paddingBits > 7 (a number of bits that exceeds an octet)
  • len(bytes) == 1 && paddingBits > 0 (a nonzero number of bits when no bits remain in the string)
  • bytes[len(bytes)-1]&((1<<bytes[0])-1) != 0, padding bits filled with a value other than 0.

Which of those “doesn't look right”, or what's missing?

@bcmills bcmills added WaitingForInfo Issue is not actionable because of missing required information, which needs to be provided. NeedsInvestigation Someone must examine and confirm this is a valid issue and not a duplicate of an existing one. labels Jan 29, 2019
@bcmills bcmills changed the title asn1 package: wired error handling for parseBitString encoding/asn1: weird error handling for parseBitString Jan 29, 2019
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