The length to the debug message could conceivably leak through the time it
takes to print it, and that length would in turn reveal whether padding was
correct or not.
The basis for the Lucky 13 family of attacks is for an attacker to be able to
distinguish between (long) valid TLS-CBC padding and invalid TLS-CBC padding.
Since our code sets padlen = 0 for invalid padding, the length of the input to
the HMAC function, and the location where we read the MAC, give information
about that.
A local attacker could gain information about that by observing via a
cache attack whether the bytes at the end of the record (at the location of
would-be padding) have been read during MAC verification (computation +
comparison).
Let's make sure they're always read.
For the situation where the mbedTLS device has limited RAM, but the
other end of the connection doesn't support the max_fragment_length
extension. To be spec-compliant, mbedTLS has to keep a 16384 byte
incoming buffer. However the outgoing buffer can be made smaller without
breaking spec compliance, and we save some RAM.
See comments in include/mbedtls/config.h for some more details.
(The lower limit of outgoing buffer size is the buffer size used during
handshake/cert negotiation. As the handshake is half-duplex it might
even be possible to store this data in the "incoming" buffer during the
handshake, which would save even more RAM - but it would also be a lot
hackier and error-prone. I didn't really explore this possibility, but
thought I'd mention it here in case someone sees this later on a mission
to jam mbedTLS into an even tinier RAM footprint.)
As a protection against the Lucky Thirteen attack, the TLS code for
CBC decryption in encrypt-then-MAC mode performs extra MAC
calculations to compensate for variations in message size due to
padding. The amount of extra MAC calculation to perform was based on
the assumption that the bulk of the time is spent in processing
64-byte blocks, which is correct for most supported hashes but not for
SHA-384. Correct the amount of extra work for SHA-384 (and SHA-512
which is currently not used in TLS, and MD2 although no one should
care about that).
* development: (504 commits)
Fix minor code style issues
Add the uodate to the soversion to the ChangeLog
Fix the ChangeLog for clarity, english and credit
Update version to 2.9.0
ecp: Fix binary compatibility with group ID
Changelog entry
Change accepted ciphersuite versions when parsing server hello
Remove preprocessor directives around platform_util.h include
Fix style for mbedtls_mpi_zeroize()
Improve mbedtls_platform_zeroize() docs
mbedtls_zeroize -> mbedtls_platform_zeroize in docs
Reword config.h docs for MBEDTLS_PLATFORM_ZEROIZE_ALT
Organize CMakeLists targets in alphabetical order
Organize output objs in alfabetical order in Makefile
Regenerate errors after ecp.h updates
Update ecp.h
Change variable bytes_written to header_bytes in record decompression
Update ecp.h
Update ecp.h
Update ecp.h
...
Rename to mbedtls_ssl_get_async_operation_data and
mbedtls_ssl_set_async_operation_data so that they're about
"async operation data" and not about some not-obvious "data".
When a handshake step starts an asynchronous operation, the
application needs to know which SSL connection the operation is for,
so that when the operation completes, the application can wake that
connection up. Therefore the async start callbacks need to take the
SSL context as an argument. It isn't enough to let them set a cookie
in the SSL connection, the application needs to be able to find the
right SSL connection later.
Also pass the SSL context to the other callbacks for consistency. Add
a new field to the handshake that the application can use to store a
per-connection context. This new field replaces the former
context (operation_ctx) that was created by the start function and
passed to the resume function.
Add a boolean flag to the handshake structure to track whether an
asynchronous operation is in progress. This is more robust than
relying on the application to set a non-null application context.
Change the signature of mbedtls_ssl_handshake_free again. Now take the
whole SSL context as argument and not just the configuration and the
handshake substructure.
This is in preparation for changing the asynchronous cancel callback
to take the SSL context as an argument.
Conflict resolution:
* ChangeLog: put the new entry from my branch in the proper place.
* include/mbedtls/error.h: counted high-level module error codes again.
* include/mbedtls/ssl.h: picked different numeric codes for the
concurrently added errors; made the new error a full sentence per
current standards.
* library/error.c: ran scripts/generate_errors.pl.
* library/ssl_srv.c:
* ssl_prepare_server_key_exchange "DHE key exchanges": the conflict
was due to style corrections in development
(4cb1f4d49c) which I merged with
my refactoring.
* ssl_prepare_server_key_exchange "For key exchanges involving the
server signing", first case, variable declarations: merged line
by line:
* dig_signed_len: added in async
* signature_len: removed in async
* hashlen: type changed to size_t in development
* hash: size changed to MBEDTLS_MD_MAX_SIZE in async
* ret: added in async
* ssl_prepare_server_key_exchange "For key exchanges involving the
server signing", first cae comment: the conflict was due to style
corrections in development (4cb1f4d49c)
which I merged with my comment changes made as part of refactoring
the function.
* ssl_prepare_server_key_exchange "Compute the hash to be signed" if
`md_alg != MBEDTLS_MD_NONE`: conflict between
ebd652fe2d
"ssl_write_server_key_exchange: calculate hashlen explicitly" and
46f5a3e9b4 "Check return codes from
MD in ssl code". I took the code from commit
ca1d742904 made on top of development
which makes mbedtls_ssl_get_key_exchange_md_ssl_tls return the
hash length.
* programs/ssl/ssl_server2.c: multiple conflicts between the introduction
of MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_ASYNC_IN_PROGRESS and new auxiliary functions and
definitions for async support, and the introduction of idle().
* definitions before main: concurrent additions, kept both.
* main, just after `handshake:`: in the loop around
mbedtls_ssl_handshake(), merge the addition of support for
MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_ASYNC_IN_PROGRESS and SSL_ASYNC_INJECT_ERROR_CANCEL
with the addition of the idle() call.
* main, if `opt.transport == MBEDTLS_SSL_TRANSPORT_STREAM`: take the
code from development and add a check for
MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_ASYNC_IN_PROGRESS.
* main, loop around mbedtls_ssl_read() in the datagram case:
take the code from development and add a check for
MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_ASYNC_IN_PROGRESS; revert to a do...while loop.
* main, loop around mbedtls_ssl_write() in the datagram case:
take the code from development and add a check for
MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_ASYNC_IN_PROGRESS; revert to a do...while loop.
In mbedtls_ssl_get_key_exchange_md_tls1_2, add an output parameter for
the hash length. The code that calls this function can currently do
without it, but it will need the hash length in the future, when
adding support for a third-party callback to calculate the signature
of the hash.
New compile-time option MBEDTLS_SSL_ASYNC_PRIVATE_C, enabling
callbacks to replace private key operations. These callbacks allow the
SSL stack to make an asynchronous call to an external cryptographic
module instead of calling the cryptography layer inside the library.
The call is asynchronous in that it may return the new status code
MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_ASYNC_IN_PROGRESS, in which case the SSL stack returns
and can be later called where it left off.
This commit introduces the configuration option. Later commits will
implement the feature proper.
This function is declared in ssl_internal.h, so this is not a public
API change.
This is in preparation for mbedtls_ssl_handshake_free needing to call
methods from the config structure.
This commit removes all the static occurrencies of the function
mbedtls_zeroize() in each of the individual .c modules. Instead the
function has been moved to utils.h that is included in each of the
modules.
In mbedtls_ssl_derive_keys, don't call mbedtls_md_hmac_starts in
ciphersuites that don't use HMAC. This doesn't change the behavior of
the code, but avoids relying on an uncaught error when attempting to
start an HMAC operation that hadn't been initialized.
