FIX: Assertion may be false for untrusted data #4391
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When unpack()-ing untrusted data (e.g. public keys or ciphertexts) it is possible that a debug assertion we made does not hold legitimately. The range check happens later in the deserialiation steps. Co-Authored-By: Fabian Albert <fabian.albert@rohde-schwarz.com>
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When unpack()-ing untrusted data (e.g. public keys or ciphertexts) it is possible that a debug assertion we made does not hold legitimately. The range check happens later in the deserialization steps.
Note that this only really becomes a problem when configuring
--with-debug-asserts --unsafe-terminate-on-asserts(as we do for sanitizer builds)This is a fix for: #4375 (comment).