Coverity assumes that the memory holding any value read using byte
swapping is tainted. As we store the NSEC3PARAM records in wire
form and iterations is byte swapped the memory holding the record
is marked as tainted. nsec3->salt_length is marked as tainted
transitively. To remove the taint the value need to be range checked.
For a correctly formatted record region.length should match
nsec3->salt_length and provides a convenient value to check the field
against.
*** CID 316507: Insecure data handling (TAINTED_SCALAR)
/lib/dns/rdata/generic/nsec3param_51.c: 241 in tostruct_nsec3param()
235 region.length = rdata->length;
236 nsec3param->hash = uint8_consume_fromregion(®ion);
237 nsec3param->flags = uint8_consume_fromregion(®ion);
238 nsec3param->iterations = uint16_consume_fromregion(®ion);
239
240 nsec3param->salt_length = uint8_consume_fromregion(®ion);
>>> CID 316507: Insecure data handling (TAINTED_SCALAR)
>>> Passing tainted expression "nsec3param->salt_length" to "mem_maybedup", which uses it as an offset.
241 nsec3param->salt = mem_maybedup(mctx, region.base,
242 nsec3param->salt_length);
243 if (nsec3param->salt == NULL) {
244 return (ISC_R_NOMEMORY);
245 }
246 isc_region_consume(®ion, nsec3param->salt_length);
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