fix(shacrypt): clamp out of range rounds when decoding

[james-d-elliott]

The SHA-crypt specification requires rounds values below 1000 or above 999999999 to be clamped to the nearest limit rather than rejected. The decoder rejected them, so valid hashes produced by other implementations such as $5$rounds=10$... could not be decoded or verified.

Clamp the decoded rounds to the supported range, including values that overflow a uint64, and encode the clamped value as glibc does. Values that are empty or not numeric are still rejected.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • SHA-crypt digests with numeric round counts outside the supported range are now accepted and processed using the nearest supported minimum or maximum. This includes values exceeding standard integer limits.
  • Digests with round counts below the minimum can now be verified successfully; when re-encoded, their rounds are normalized to the minimum.
  • Empty, negative, and nonnumeric round counts remain invalid.

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• algorithm/shacrypt/decoder.go
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The SHA-crypt decoder now clamps numeric rounds to the supported range. Regression tests cover boundary values, malformed inputs, and low-round SHA-256 and SHA-512 digests. The corpus-wide password-check test was removed.

Changes

SHA-crypt round normalization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parse and clamp rounds algorithm/shacrypt/decoder.go	The decoder parses rounds as a 64-bit integer. It clamps numeric values below 1000 or above 999,999,999 to those bounds.
Verify round handling algorithm/shacrypt/regression_test.go	Tests check boundary normalization, rejection of empty, negative, and nonnumeric values, and successful handling of 10-round SHA-256 and SHA-512 digests. Encoding those digests normalizes rounds to 1000.

Corpus password-check test removal

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Remove corpus-wide password-check test fuzz_test.go	The corpus-wide test and its panic-recovery helper were removed, along with the strings import used by the test.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8fe55

Malformed SHA-crypt hashes with an overflowing rounds value and a nonnumeric suffix can be accepted. This is a narrow input-validation issue; the change is otherwise mergeable with a targeted fix or explicit acceptance.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8fe55

The change improves compatibility by normalizing out-of-range SHA-crypt rounds. It does not raise the supported maximum work factor or establish a new route to password verification. No introduced security issue was verified, but the effect in applications that accept externally supplied hashes is not known.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Where an application supplies an external encoded hash to a decoder configured for SHA-crypt, that hash can exercise the expanded rounds acceptance through Decode or CheckPassword. Repository evidence does not establish an internet-facing caller or deployment-wide exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Numeric out-of-range input is now normalized rather than rejected, but nonnumeric input still fails and normalized iterations remain within the existing SHA-crypt bounds.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Applications that accept untrusted encoded hashes could impose a verification work budget appropriate to their environment; the existing permitted maximum is large, but this review does not establish that the PR increased that maximum or introduced an exploitable path.

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✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 83.40%. Comparing base (b2eae9f) to head (e44d65b).

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Inline comments:
In `@algorithm/shacrypt/decoder.go`:
- Line 124: Update the `ParseUint` handling in `DecodeParameterStrAdvanced` so
an overflowing `rounds` value is accepted only if every character is a decimal
digit; reject nonnumeric suffixes with the existing invalid-option error.
Preserve the current overflow clamping behavior for all-decimal values.

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