[PATCH] s3-krb5: Limit search for old kvno to 8bits

Simo simo at samba.org
Wed May 7 13:42:07 MDT 2014


On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 20:23 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 11:13:04AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > Pretty compelling stuff :-). Wow, just looked
> > at that doc - what a *mess* :-).
> > 
> > "The 8 bit vno8 field is the version number of the key. This value is
> > overridden by the 32 bit vno field if it is present."
> > 
> > so the caller has no way of knowing, as far
> > as I can see, if the kvno field stored and
> > returned is 8 bit or 32 bit :-(.
> 
> Maybe Simo, Günther or Andreas want to chime in here?

Although, in theory there is a 32 bit vno field, both heimdal and MIT
code only use the lowest 8 bit for comparison.

In MIT code I do not even find the 32bit version ever stored, but I just
took a very quick look.

I think Christof patch is reasonable.

Reviewed-by: Simo Sorce <idra at samba.org>

Simo.




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