Before this commit, if a certificate only had one issue (for example, if the
"untrusted" bit was the only set in flags), an attacker that could flip this
single bit between the moment it's set and the moment flags are checked before
returning from mbedtls_x509_crt_verify() could make the entire verification
routine appear to succeed (return 0 with no bit set in flags).
Avoid that by making sure that flags always has either 0 or at least 9 bits
set during the execution of the function. However, to preserve the API, clear
the 8 extra bits before returning. This doesn't open the door to other
attacks, as fortunately the API already had redundancy: either both flags and
the return value are 0, or flags has bits set and the return value is non-zero
with at least 16 bits set (assuming 32-bit 2-complement ints).
Inspection of the generated assembly showed that before this commit, armcc 5
was optimizing away the successive reads to the volatile local variable that's
used for double-checks. Inspection also reveals that inserting a call to an
external function is enough to prevent it from doing that.
The tested versions of ARM-GCC, Clang and Armcc 6 (aka armclang) all keep the
double read, with our without a call to an external function in the middle.
The inserted function can also be changed to insert a random delay if
desired in the future, as it is appropriately places between the reads.
This can be used by Mbed TLS functions in any module to signal that a fault
attack is likely happening, so this can be appropriately handled by the
application (report, fall back to safer mode or even halt, etc.)
Previously it was returning 0 or 1, so flipping a single bit in the return
value reversed its meaning. Now it's returning the diff itself.
This is safe because in the two places it's used (signature verification and
point validation), invalid values will have a large number of bits differing
from the expected value, so diff will have a large Hamming weight.
An alternative would be to return for example -!(diff == 0), but the
comparison itself is prone to attacks (glitching the appropriate flag in the
CPU flags register, or the conditional branch if the comparison uses one). So
we'd need to protect the comparison, and it's simpler to just skip it and
return diff itself.
This is a first step in protecting against fault injection attacks: the
attacker can no longer change failure into success by flipping a single bit.
Additional steps are needed to prevent other attacks (instruction skip etc)
and will be the object of future commits.
The return value of uECC_vli_equal() should be protected as well, which will
be done in a future commit as well.
Currently functions that may return success or failure tend to do so by
returning 0 or 1. If an active physical attacker can flip a bit in memory or
registers at the right time, they may easily change a failure value into a
success value, with potentially catastrophic security consequences.
As typical attackers can only flip a few bits, an element of protection
against such attacks is to ensure a sufficient Hamming distance between
failure values and the success value. This commit introduces such values,
which will put to use in critical functions in future commits.
In addition to SUCCESS and FAILURE, a third value ATTACK_DETECTED is
introduced, which can be used later when suspicious-looking events are noticed
(static data changed when it shouldn't, double condition checking returning
inconsistent results, etc.).
Values are chosen so that Hamming distances are large, and that no value is
the complement of another, in order to avoid unwanted compiler optimisations.
Note: the error values used by Mbed TLS are already safe (assuming 32-bit
integers) as they are of the form -x with x in the range [1, 2^15) so their
Hamming distance with the success value (0) is at least 17, so it's hard for
an attacker to turn an error value into the success value (or vice-versa).
This avoids the need for each calling site to manually regularize the scalar
and randomize coordinates, which makes for simpler safe use and saves 50 bytes
of code size in the library.
-Add config option for AES encyption only to config.h. Feature is
disabled by default.
-Enable AES encrypt only feature in baremetal.h configuration
-Remove AES encypt only feature from full config
Do not reserve additionl space for mbedtls_aes_context if config
option AES_ONLY_128_BIT_KEY_LENGTH is used and PADLOCK_C is not used.
This reduces RAM usage by 96 bytes.
In baremetal configuration reserve space for 10 128-bit keys in order
to save 112 bytes of heap.
- Do not include MBEDTLS_AES_ONLY_128_BIT_KEY_LENGTH to full config
as it requires also MBEDTLS_CTR_DRBG_USE_128_BIT_KEY
- Update check_config to check availability of flags:
MBEDTLS_AES_ONLY_128_BIT_KEY_LENGTH
MBEDTLS_CTR_DRBG_USE_128_BIT_KEY
* mbedtls-2.16: (25 commits)
Fix compilation error
Add const to variable
Fix endianity issue when reading uint32
Increase test suite timeout
Reduce stack usage of test_suite_pkcs1_v15
Reduce stack usage of test_suite_pkcs1_v21
Reduce stack usage of test_suite_rsa
Reduce stack usage of test_suite_pk
Enable MBEDTLS_MEMORY_DEBUG in memory buffer alloc test in all.sh
Remove unnecessary memory buffer alloc and memory backtrace unsets
Disable DTLS proxy tests for MEMORY_BUFFER_ALLOC test
all.sh: restructure memory allocator tests
Add missing dependency in memory buffer alloc set in all.sh
Don't set MBEDTLS_MEMORY_DEBUG through `scripts/config.pl full`
Add cfg dep MBEDTLS_MEMORY_DEBUG->MBEDTLS_MEMORY_BUFFER_ALLOC_C
Add all.sh run with full config and ASan enabled
Add all.sh run with MBEDTLS_MEMORY_BUFFER_ALLOC_C enabled
Update documentation of exceptions for `config.pl full`
Adapt all.sh to removal of buffer allocator from full config
Disable memory buffer allocator in full config
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Use MBEDTLS_ENTROPY_HARDWARE_ALT instead of a new global RNG
flag. When this flag is enabled, the platform provides the RNG.
When running unit tests, rnd_std_rand should be used by overriding
the mbedtls_hardware_poll.
As replacements of standard library functions, they should have the same
prototype, including return type.
While it doesn't usually matter when used directly, it does when the address
of the function is taken, as done with memset_func, used for implementing
mbedtls_platform_zeroize().
