Permit the "supported_groups" extension in ServerHellos

Although this is forbidden by all three(!) relevant specifications,
there seem to be multiple server implementations in the wild that
send it.  Since we didn't check for unexpected extensions in any
given message type until TLS 1.3 support was added, our previous
behavior was to silently accept these extensions and pass them over
to the custom extension callback (if any).  In order to avoid
regression of functionality, relax the check for "extension in
unexpected context" for this specific case, but leave the protocol
enforcment mechanism unchanged for other extensions and in other
extension contexts.

Leave a detailed comment to indicate what is going on.

Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4463)

diff --git a/ssl/statem/extensions.c b/ssl/statem/extensions.c
index 505337a44a83efd28bb21c58445932e3dfd73c7d..f0f5a02124adca0bfb28c935b102f477d07aba5b 100644 (file)
--- a/ssl/statem/extensions.c
+++ b/ssl/statem/extensions.c
@@ -160,8 +160,34 @@ static const EXTENSION_DEFINITION ext_defs[] = {
         final_ec_pt_formats
     },
     {
+        /*
+         * "supported_groups" is spread across several specifications.
+         * It was originally specified as "elliptic_curves" in RFC 4492,
+         * and broadened to include named FFDH groups by RFC 7919.
+         * Both RFCs 4492 and 7919 do not include a provision for the server
+         * to indicate to the client the complete list of groups supported
+         * by the server, with the server instead just indicating the
+         * selected group for this connection in the ServerKeyExchange
+         * message.  TLS 1.3 adds a scheme for the server to indicate
+         * to the client its list of supported groups in the
+         * EncryptedExtensions message, but none of the relevant
+         * specifications permit sending supported_groups in the ServerHello.
+         * Nonetheless (possibly due to the close proximity to the
+         * "ec_point_formats" extension, which is allowed in the ServerHello),
+         * there are several servers that send this extension in the
+         * ServerHello anyway.  Up to and including the 1.1.0 release,
+         * we did not check for the presence of nonpermitted extensions,
+         * so to avoid a regression, we must permit this extension in the
+         * TLS 1.2 ServerHello as well.
+         *
+         * Note that there is no tls_parse_stoc_supported_groups function,
+         * so we do not perform any additional parsing, validation, or
+         * processing on the server's group list -- this is just a minimal
+         * change to preserve compatibility with these misbehaving servers.
+         */
         TLSEXT_TYPE_supported_groups,
-        SSL_EXT_CLIENT_HELLO | SSL_EXT_TLS1_3_ENCRYPTED_EXTENSIONS,
+        SSL_EXT_CLIENT_HELLO | SSL_EXT_TLS1_3_ENCRYPTED_EXTENSIONS
+        | SSL_EXT_TLS1_2_SERVER_HELLO,
         NULL, tls_parse_ctos_supported_groups, NULL,
         tls_construct_stoc_supported_groups,
         tls_construct_ctos_supported_groups, NULL