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Tobias Frauenschläger 10953f021b CMAC: fix wraparound in streaming update.
The guard `if (cmac->totalSz != 0)` was used to skip XOR-chaining on
the first block (where digest is all-zeros and the XOR is a no-op).
However, totalSz is word32 and wraps to zero after 2^28 block flushes
(4 GiB), causing the guard to erroneously fire again and discard the
live CBC-MAC chain state.  Any two messages sharing a common suffix
beyond the 4 GiB mark then produce identical CMAC tags, enabling a
zero-work prefix-substitution forgery.  The fix removes the guard,
making the XOR unconditional; the no-op property on the first block is
preserved because digest is zero-initialized by wc_InitCmac_ex.

Identified by: Nicholas Carlini (Anthropic) & Thai Duong (Calif.io)
2026-04-02 12:35:15 +02:00
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