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Fix Lucky 13 cache attack on MD/SHA padding

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 gives information about that.

Information about this length (modulo the MD/SHA block size) can be deduced
from how much MD/SHA padding (this is distinct from TLS-CBC padding) is used.
If MD/SHA padding is read from a (static) buffer, a local attacker could get
information about how much is used via a cache attack targeting that buffer.

Let's get rid of this buffer. Now the only buffer used is the internal MD/SHA
one, which is always read fully by the process() function.
This commit is contained in:
Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard
2018-06-28 12:10:27 +02:00
parent 104d85865d
commit 1cc1fb0599
5 changed files with 141 additions and 81 deletions

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@ -311,14 +311,6 @@ void mbedtls_sha256_update( mbedtls_sha256_context *ctx,
}
#endif
static const unsigned char sha256_padding[64] =
{
0x80, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
};
/*
* SHA-256 final digest
*/
@ -326,26 +318,48 @@ int mbedtls_sha256_finish_ret( mbedtls_sha256_context *ctx,
unsigned char output[32] )
{
int ret;
uint32_t last, padn;
uint32_t used;
uint32_t high, low;
unsigned char msglen[8];
/*
* Add padding: 0x80 then 0x00 until 8 bytes remain for the length
*/
used = ctx->total[0] & 0x3F;
ctx->buffer[used++] = 0x80;
if( used <= 56 )
{
/* Enough room for padding + length in current block */
memset( ctx->buffer + used, 0, 56 - used );
}
else
{
/* We'll need an extra block */
memset( ctx->buffer + used, 0, 64 - used );
if( ( ret = mbedtls_internal_sha256_process( ctx, ctx->buffer ) ) != 0 )
return( ret );
memset( ctx->buffer, 0, 56 );
}
/*
* Add message length
*/
high = ( ctx->total[0] >> 29 )
| ( ctx->total[1] << 3 );
low = ( ctx->total[0] << 3 );
PUT_UINT32_BE( high, msglen, 0 );
PUT_UINT32_BE( low, msglen, 4 );
PUT_UINT32_BE( high, ctx->buffer, 56 );
PUT_UINT32_BE( low, ctx->buffer, 60 );
last = ctx->total[0] & 0x3F;
padn = ( last < 56 ) ? ( 56 - last ) : ( 120 - last );
if( ( ret = mbedtls_sha256_update_ret( ctx, sha256_padding, padn ) ) != 0 )
return( ret );
if( ( ret = mbedtls_sha256_update_ret( ctx, msglen, 8 ) ) != 0 )
if( ( ret = mbedtls_internal_sha256_process( ctx, ctx->buffer ) ) != 0 )
return( ret );
/*
* Output final state
*/
PUT_UINT32_BE( ctx->state[0], output, 0 );
PUT_UINT32_BE( ctx->state[1], output, 4 );
PUT_UINT32_BE( ctx->state[2], output, 8 );