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Description: Fix CVE-2011-1945, timing attacks against ECDHE_ECDSA makes
 it easier to determine private keys.
Origin: http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=20892

Index: openssl-0.9.8o/crypto/ecdsa/ecs_ossl.c
===================================================================
--- openssl-0.9.8o.orig/crypto/ecdsa/ecs_ossl.c
+++ openssl-0.9.8o/crypto/ecdsa/ecs_ossl.c
@@ -144,6 +144,14 @@ static int ecdsa_sign_setup(EC_KEY *ecke
 			}
 		while (BN_is_zero(k));
 
+		/* We do not want timing information to leak the length of k,
+		 * so we compute G*k using an equivalent scalar of fixed
+		 * bit-length. */
+
+		if (!BN_add(k, k, order)) goto err;
+		if (BN_num_bits(k) <= BN_num_bits(order))
+			if (!BN_add(k, k, order)) goto err;
+
 		/* compute r the x-coordinate of generator * k */
 		if (!EC_POINT_mul(group, tmp_point, k, NULL, NULL, ctx))
 		{