streams: openssl: fix thread-safety for OpenSSL error messages

The function `ERR_error_string` can be invoked without providing a
buffer, in which case OpenSSL will simply return a string printed into a
static buffer. Obviously and as documented in ERR_error_string(3), this
is not thread-safe at all. As libgit2 is a library, though, it is easily
possible that other threads may be using OpenSSL at the same time, which
might lead to clobbered error strings.

Fix the issue by instead using a stack-allocated buffer. According to
the documentation, the caller has to provide a buffer of at least 256
bytes of size. While we do so, make sure that the buffer will never get
overflown by switching to `ERR_error_string_n` to specify the buffer's
size.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/streams/openssl.c b/src/streams/openssl.c
index 2b246002f..133d1416d 100644
--- a/src/streams/openssl.c
+++ b/src/streams/openssl.c
@@ -282,8 +282,9 @@ static int ssl_set_error(SSL *ssl, int error)
 	case SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL:
 		e = ERR_get_error();
 		if (e > 0) {
-			giterr_set(GITERR_NET, "SSL error: %s",
-					ERR_error_string(e, NULL));
+			char errmsg[256];
+			ERR_error_string_n(e, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg));
+			giterr_set(GITERR_NET, "SSL error: %s", errmsg);
 			break;
 		} else if (error < 0) {
 			giterr_set(GITERR_OS, "SSL error: syscall failure");
@@ -293,10 +294,13 @@ static int ssl_set_error(SSL *ssl, int error)
 		return GIT_EEOF;
 		break;
 	case SSL_ERROR_SSL:
+	{
+		char errmsg[256];
 		e = ERR_get_error();
-		giterr_set(GITERR_NET, "SSL error: %s",
-				ERR_error_string(e, NULL));
+		ERR_error_string_n(e, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg));
+		giterr_set(GITERR_NET, "SSL error: %s", errmsg);
 		break;
+	}
 	case SSL_ERROR_NONE:
 	case SSL_ERROR_ZERO_RETURN:
 	default:
@@ -640,8 +644,12 @@ out_err:
 int git_openssl__set_cert_location(const char *file, const char *path)
 {
 	if (SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(git__ssl_ctx, file, path) == 0) {
+		char errmsg[256];
+
+		ERR_error_string_n(ERR_get_error(), errmsg, sizeof(errmsg));
 		giterr_set(GITERR_SSL, "OpenSSL error: failed to load certificates: %s",
-				   ERR_error_string(ERR_get_error(), NULL));
+			errmsg);
+
 		return -1;
 	}
 	return 0;