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-rw-r--r--kbx/keybox-openpgp.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kbx/keybox-openpgp.c b/kbx/keybox-openpgp.c
index 2cac242e9..a5f602b7b 100644
--- a/kbx/keybox-openpgp.c
+++ b/kbx/keybox-openpgp.c
@@ -139,7 +139,14 @@ next_packet (unsigned char const **bufptr, size_t *buflen,
return gpg_error (GPG_ERR_UNEXPECTED);
}
- if (pktlen == (unsigned long)(-1))
+ if (pkttype == 63 && pktlen == 0xFFFFFFFF)
+ /* Sometimes the decompressing layer enters an error state in
+ which it simply outputs 0xff for every byte read. If we have a
+ stream of 0xff bytes, then it will be detected as a new format
+ packet with type 63 and a 4-byte encoded length that is 4G-1.
+ Since packets with type 63 are private and we use them as a
+ control packet, which won't be 4 GB, we reject such packets as
+ invalid. */
return gpg_error (GPG_ERR_INV_PACKET);
if (pktlen > len)