Security fix: Vaudenay timing attack on CBC.

An advisory will be posted to the web.  Expect a release within the hour.

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 661f9e504c27bd0047758431fb800c3b384b010f..0ef0122b5d7fb1066df218dd7657ce0b3a910dbf 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -2,7 +2,17 @@
  OpenSSL CHANGES
  _______________
 
- Changes between 0.9.7 and 0.9.7a  [XX xxx 2003]
+ Changes between 0.9.7 and 0.9.7a  [19 Feb 2003]
+
+  *) In ssl3_get_record (ssl/s3_pkt.c), minimize information leaked
+     via timing by performing a MAC computation even if incorrrect
+     block cipher padding has been found.  This is a countermeasure
+     against active attacks where the attacker has to distinguish
+     between bad padding and a MAC verification error. (CAN-2003-0078)
+
+     [Bodo Moeller; problem pointed out by Brice Canvel (EPFL),
+     Alain Hiltgen (UBS), Serge Vaudenay (EPFL), and
+     Martin Vuagnoux (EPFL, Ilion)]
 
   *) Make the no-err option work as intended.  The intention with no-err
      is not to have the whole error stack handling routines removed from
@@ -1893,6 +1903,18 @@ des-cbc           3624.96k     5258.21k     5530.91k     5624.30k     5628.26k
   *) Clean old EAY MD5 hack from e_os.h.
      [Richard Levitte]
 
+ Changes between 0.9.6h and 0.9.6i  [19 Feb 2003]
+
+  *) In ssl3_get_record (ssl/s3_pkt.c), minimize information leaked
+     via timing by performing a MAC computation even if incorrrect
+     block cipher padding has been found.  This is a countermeasure
+     against active attacks where the attacker has to distinguish
+     between bad padding and a MAC verification error. (CAN-2003-0078)
+
+     [Bodo Moeller; problem pointed out by Brice Canvel (EPFL),
+     Alain Hiltgen (UBS), Serge Vaudenay (EPFL), and
+     Martin Vuagnoux (EPFL, Ilion)]
+
  Changes between 0.9.6g and 0.9.6h  [5 Dec 2002]
 
   *) New function OPENSSL_cleanse(), which is used to cleanse a section of

diff --git a/ssl/s3_pkt.c b/ssl/s3_pkt.c
index 6ccea9aee5865955d5e65883edea47e76b8d8b14..3f88429e79a66ae5c189894332023b0b06b1c31a 100644 (file)
--- a/ssl/s3_pkt.c
+++ b/ssl/s3_pkt.c
@@ -238,6 +238,8 @@ static int ssl3_get_record(SSL *s)
        unsigned int mac_size;
        int clear=0;
        size_t extra;
+       int decryption_failed_or_bad_record_mac = 0;
+       unsigned char *mac = NULL;
 
        rr= &(s->s3->rrec);
        sess=s->session;
@@ -353,8 +355,11 @@ again:
                        /* SSLerr() and ssl3_send_alert() have been called */
                        goto err;
 
-               /* otherwise enc_err == -1 */
-               goto decryption_failed_or_bad_record_mac;
+               /* Otherwise enc_err == -1, which indicates bad padding
+                * (rec->length has not been changed in this case).
+                * To minimize information leaked via timing, we will perform
+                * the MAC computation anyway. */
+               decryption_failed_or_bad_record_mac = 1;
                }
 
 #ifdef TLS_DEBUG
@@ -380,28 +385,46 @@ printf("\n");
                        SSLerr(SSL_F_SSL3_GET_RECORD,SSL_R_PRE_MAC_LENGTH_TOO_LONG);
                        goto f_err;
 #else
-                       goto decryption_failed_or_bad_record_mac;
+                       decryption_failed_or_bad_record_mac = 1;
 #endif                 
                        }
                /* check the MAC for rr->input (it's in mac_size bytes at the tail) */
-               if (rr->length < mac_size)
+               if (rr->length >= mac_size)
                        {
+                       rr->length -= mac_size;
+                       mac = &rr->data[rr->length];
+                       }
+               else
+                       {
+                       /* record (minus padding) is too short to contain a MAC */
 #if 0 /* OK only for stream ciphers */
                        al=SSL_AD_DECODE_ERROR;
                        SSLerr(SSL_F_SSL3_GET_RECORD,SSL_R_LENGTH_TOO_SHORT);
                        goto f_err;
 #else
-                       goto decryption_failed_or_bad_record_mac;
+                       decryption_failed_or_bad_record_mac = 1;
+                       rr->length = 0;
 #endif
                        }
-               rr->length-=mac_size;
                i=s->method->ssl3_enc->mac(s,md,0);
-               if (memcmp(md,&(rr->data[rr->length]),mac_size) != 0)
+               if (mac == NULL || memcmp(md, mac, mac_size) != 0)
                        {
-                       goto decryption_failed_or_bad_record_mac;
+                       decryption_failed_or_bad_record_mac = 1;
                        }
                }
 
+       if (decryption_failed_or_bad_record_mac)
+               {
+               /* A separate 'decryption_failed' alert was introduced with TLS 1.0,
+                * SSL 3.0 only has 'bad_record_mac'.  But unless a decryption
+                * failure is directly visible from the ciphertext anyway,
+                * we should not reveal which kind of error occured -- this
+                * might become visible to an attacker (e.g. via a logfile) */
+               al=SSL_AD_BAD_RECORD_MAC;
+               SSLerr(SSL_F_SSL3_GET_RECORD,SSL_R_DECRYPTION_FAILED_OR_BAD_RECORD_MAC);
+               goto f_err;
+               }
+
        /* r->length is now just compressed */
        if (s->expand != NULL)
                {
@@ -443,14 +466,6 @@ printf("\n");
 
        return(1);
 
-decryption_failed_or_bad_record_mac:
-       /* Separate 'decryption_failed' alert was introduced with TLS 1.0,
-        * SSL 3.0 only has 'bad_record_mac'.  But unless a decryption
-        * failure is directly visible from the ciphertext anyway,
-        * we should not reveal which kind of error occured -- this
-        * might become visible to an attacker (e.g. via logfile) */
-       al=SSL_AD_BAD_RECORD_MAC;
-       SSLerr(SSL_F_SSL3_GET_RECORD,SSL_R_DECRYPTION_FAILED_OR_BAD_RECORD_MAC);
 f_err:
        ssl3_send_alert(s,SSL3_AL_FATAL,al);
 err: