On Tue, Jul 05, 2011, Miod Vallat wrote:
>> found by jsg.
>>
>> Index: lib/isc/hmacsha.c
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /home/tedu/cvs/src/usr.sbin/bind/lib/isc/hmacsha.c,v
>> retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
>> diff -u -p -r1.1.1.1 hmacsha.c
>> --- lib/isc/hmacsha.c        9 Dec 2007 12:34:04 -0000       1.1.1.1
>> +++ lib/isc/hmacsha.c        5 Jul 2011 18:43:15 -0000
>> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ void
>>  isc_hmacsha1_invalidate(isc_hmacsha1_t *ctx) {
>>      isc_sha1_invalidate(&ctx->sha1ctx);
>>      memset(ctx->key, 0, sizeof(ctx->key));
>> -    memset(ctx, 0, sizeof(ctx));
>> +    memset(ctx, 0, sizeof(*ctx));
> 
> Then what purpose is there to keep ctx->key memset before?

obviously because the really secret bits need to be really erased. :)

that's a good catch.

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