[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #4651] [BUG] malloc_failure in ASN1_D2I_READ_BIO with large smime encoded file

[Stephen Henson via RT]

On Thu Aug 18 00:40:21 2016, bmorton at mortoninsights.com wrote:
>
> Regardless of input size (2GB or 30GB) to the smime application, the
> resulting encrypted file is only 1.9GB on disk. Unless smime format
> has
> some very serious compression, it looks like it is silently truncating
> input. A 32 bit integer dependency in the read buffer might explain
> that.
> Is it related, or should I file that separately?
>

That's strange. It shouldn't do that. The encoding operations should work with
(almost) arbitrary size input when streaming as there is no int dependency and
no need to hold the complete structure in memory.

Steve.
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Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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