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Diffstat (limited to 'g10/parse-packet.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | g10/parse-packet.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/g10/parse-packet.c b/g10/parse-packet.c index dddff86a2..bdf68c551 100644 --- a/g10/parse-packet.c +++ b/g10/parse-packet.c @@ -367,8 +367,28 @@ parse( IOBUF inp, PACKET *pkt, int onlykeypkts, off_t *retpos, lenbytes = ((ctb&3)==3)? 0 : (1<<(ctb & 3)); if( !lenbytes ) { pktlen = 0; /* don't know the value */ - if( pkttype != PKT_COMPRESSED ) - iobuf_set_block_mode(inp, 1); + switch (pkttype) { + case PKT_ENCRYPTED: + case PKT_PLAINTEXT: + /* These partial length encodings are from an very + early GnuPG release and deprecated. However we + still support them read-wise. Note, that we should + not allow them for any key related packets, because + this might render a keyring unusable if an errenous + packet indicated this mode but not complying to it + gets imported. */ + iobuf_set_block_mode(inp, 1); + break; + + case PKT_COMPRESSED: + break; /* the orginal pgp 2 way. */ + + default: + log_error ("%s: old style partial length " + "for invalid packet type\n", iobuf_where(inp) ); + rc = G10ERR_INVALID_PACKET; + goto leave; + } } else { for( ; lenbytes; lenbytes-- ) { |