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Signed overflow undefined behavior in md5.c
The read from data is promoted to int, and so the left shift by 24 in md5.c may cause signed overflow. This requires cast to an unsigned int:
--- a/md5.c
+++ b/md5.c
@@ -42,3 +42,3 @@ void md5_transform(MD5_CTX *ctx, const BYTE data[])
for (i = 0, j = 0; i < 16; ++i, j += 4)
- m[i] = (data[j]) + (data[j + 1] << 8) + (data[j + 2] << 16) + (data[j + 3] << 24);
+ m[i] = (data[j]) + (data[j + 1] << 8) + (data[j + 2] << 16) + ((WORD)data[j + 3] << 24);
UBSan reveals this in the tests:
$ gcc -fsanitize=undefined,address md5_test.c md5.c
$ ./a.out
md5.c:43:78: runtime error: left shift of 128 by 24 places cannot be represented in type 'int'