Previously, MAC validation for an incoming record proceeded as follows:
1) Make a copy of the MAC contained in the record;
2) Compute the expected MAC in place, overwriting the presented one;
3) Compare both.
This resulted in a record buffer overflow if truncated MAC was used, as in this
case the record buffer only reserved 10 bytes for the MAC, but the MAC
computation routine in 2) always wrote a full digest.
For specially crafted records, this could be used to perform a controlled write of
up to 6 bytes past the boundary of the heap buffer holding the record, thereby
corrupting the heap structures and potentially leading to a crash or remote code
execution.
This commit fixes this by making the following change:
1) Compute the expected MAC in a temporary buffer that has the size of the
underlying message digest.
2) Compare to this to the MAC contained in the record, potentially
restricting to the first 10 bytes if truncated HMAC is used.
A similar fix is applied to the encryption routine `ssl_encrypt_buf`.
* development: (30 commits)
update README file (#1144)
Fix typo in asn1.h
Improve leap year test names in x509parse.data
Correctly handle leap year in x509_date_is_valid()
Renegotiation: Add tests for SigAlg ext parsing
Parse Signature Algorithm ext when renegotiating
Minor style fix
config.pl get: be better behaved
config.pl get: don't rewrite config.h; detect write errors
Fixed "config.pl get" for options with no value
Fix typo and bracketing in macro args
Ensure failed test_suite output is sent to stdout
Remove use of GNU sed features from ssl-opt.sh
Fix typos in ssl-opt.sh comments
Add ssl-opt.sh test to check gmt_unix_time is good
Extend ssl-opt.h so that run_test takes function
Always print gmt_unix_time in TLS client
Restored note about using minimum functionality in makefiles
Note in README that GNU make is required
Fix changelog for ssl_server2.c usage fix
...
Remove a check introduced in the previous buffer overflow fix with keys of
size 8N+1 which the subsequent fix for buffer start calculations made
redundant.
Added a changelog entry for the buffer start calculation fix.
For a key of size 8N+1, check that the first byte after applying the
public key operation is 0 (it could have been 1 instead). The code was
incorrectly doing a no-op check instead, which led to invalid
signatures being accepted. Not a security flaw, since you would need the
private key to craft such an invalid signature, but a bug nonetheless.
The check introduced by the previous security fix was off by one. It
fixed the buffer overflow but was not compliant with the definition of
PSS which technically led to accepting some invalid signatures (but
not signatures made without the private key).
