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Revision a520723f29aac6598ff0d69e34f5e9b88213e511 authored by Matt Caswell on 14 October 2016, 12:07:00 UTC, committed by Matt Caswell on 28 October 2016, 08:43:41 UTC
Ensure we have length checks for all extensions
The previous commit inspired a review of all the length checks for the
extension adding code. This adds more robust checks and adds checks where
some were missing previously. The real solution for this is to use WPACKET
which is currently in master - but that cannot be applied to release
branches.

Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
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ERR_error_string.pod
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=head1 NAME

ERR_error_string, ERR_error_string_n, ERR_lib_error_string,
ERR_func_error_string, ERR_reason_error_string - obtain human-readable
error message

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 #include <openssl/err.h>

 char *ERR_error_string(unsigned long e, char *buf);
 void ERR_error_string_n(unsigned long e, char *buf, size_t len);

 const char *ERR_lib_error_string(unsigned long e);
 const char *ERR_func_error_string(unsigned long e);
 const char *ERR_reason_error_string(unsigned long e);

=head1 DESCRIPTION

ERR_error_string() generates a human-readable string representing the
error code I<e>, and places it at I<buf>. I<buf> must be at least 120
bytes long. If I<buf> is B<NULL>, the error string is placed in a
static buffer.
ERR_error_string_n() is a variant of ERR_error_string() that writes
at most I<len> characters (including the terminating 0)
and truncates the string if necessary.
For ERR_error_string_n(), I<buf> may not be B<NULL>.

The string will have the following format:

 error:[error code]:[library name]:[function name]:[reason string]

I<error code> is an 8 digit hexadecimal number, I<library name>,
I<function name> and I<reason string> are ASCII text.

ERR_lib_error_string(), ERR_func_error_string() and
ERR_reason_error_string() return the library name, function
name and reason string respectively.

The OpenSSL error strings should be loaded by calling
L<ERR_load_crypto_strings(3)|ERR_load_crypto_strings(3)> or, for SSL
applications, L<SSL_load_error_strings(3)|SSL_load_error_strings(3)>
first.
If there is no text string registered for the given error code,
the error string will contain the numeric code.

L<ERR_print_errors(3)|ERR_print_errors(3)> can be used to print
all error codes currently in the queue.

=head1 RETURN VALUES

ERR_error_string() returns a pointer to a static buffer containing the
string if I<buf> B<== NULL>, I<buf> otherwise.

ERR_lib_error_string(), ERR_func_error_string() and
ERR_reason_error_string() return the strings, and B<NULL> if
none is registered for the error code.

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<err(3)|err(3)>, L<ERR_get_error(3)|ERR_get_error(3)>,
L<ERR_load_crypto_strings(3)|ERR_load_crypto_strings(3)>,
L<SSL_load_error_strings(3)|SSL_load_error_strings(3)>
L<ERR_print_errors(3)|ERR_print_errors(3)>

=head1 HISTORY

ERR_error_string() is available in all versions of SSLeay and OpenSSL.
ERR_error_string_n() was added in OpenSSL 0.9.6.

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