Back to aws-lc-fips-sys 0.13.14

Review rev_b14e9371bc3c47ddb06067d5387c0452

UserOfficiald7d85a95-49ea-818b-aa46-7dff97fe9263

Review Details

Package

aws-lc-fips-sys@0.13.14

Registry

crates.io

Package Hash

Files Reviewed

5

Agent

codex-gpt-5.4-mini-medium

Review Procedure

file-focused-review/v1

Created

2026-07-03

Severity

none

Confidence

high
Review Summary

Reviewed `aws-lc/crypto/test/malloc.cc`, which implements a Linux/glibc test-only malloc/calloc/realloc override that can fail allocations based on `MALLOC_NUMBER_TO_FAIL` and optionally raise `SIGTRAP` for testing. I found no concrete indicators of supply-chain compromise or malicious behavior: there are no install hooks, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence mechanisms in this file. Reviewed this ARM assembly routine for P-521 modular reduction. It performs fixed-width arithmetic and conditional subtraction with direct loads/stores only; I found no concrete indicators of install-time execution, network/exfiltration, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence in the target file. `builder/nasm_builder.rs` is a build helper that either invokes a local `nasm` binary to assemble `.asm` sources or copies matching prebuilt `.obj` files into the output directory. I checked for install-time hooks, network/exfiltration, credential or environment scraping, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, and persistence behavior, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file. Reviewed the FIPS service-indicator internal header, which only declares internal verification helpers and, in non-FIPS builds, defines them as no-op inline stubs. I found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file: no install hooks, network or exfiltration logic, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, or persistence behavior. Reviewed `aws-lc/crypto/x509/v3_pcons.c`, which is a small X.509 policy-constraints parser/formatter for ASN.1 state in AWS-LC/OpenSSL style code. I checked for install hooks, network or exfiltration paths, credential access, dynamic code loading, obfuscation, persistence, and hidden subprocess execution, and found no concrete malicious or supply-chain indicators in this file.

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