CVE-2020-28196 (published 2020-11-06T08:15Z)

MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.17.2 and 1.18.x before 1.18.3 allows unbounded recursion via an ASN.1-encoded Kerberos message because the lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_encode.c support for BER indefinite lengths lacks a recursion limit.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVSS v3 base score: 7.5, HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-674
cwe_name: Uncontrolled Recursion
description: The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place,  consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
extended_description: 
        
      
      

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/krb5/krb5
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/krb5/krb5
author: Greg Hudson
author_date: 2020-10-31 17:07:05-04:00
msg: Add recursion limit for ASN.1 indefinite lengths

The libkrb5 ASN.1 decoder supports BER indefinite lengths.  It
computes the tag length using recursion; the lack of a recursion limit
allows an attacker to overrun the stack and cause the process to
crash.  Reported by Demi Obenour.

CVE-2020-28196:

In MIT krb5 releases 1.11 and later, an unauthenticated attacker can
cause a denial of service for any client or server to which it can
send an ASN.1-encoded Kerberos message of sufficient length.

ticket: 8959 (new)
tags: pullup
target_version: 1.18-next
target_version: 1.17-next
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/krb5/krb5
repo_name: krb5/krb5
description: mirror of MIT krb5 repository
repo_language: C
owner: krb5
file_changes: filename: asn1_encode.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ make_tag(asn1buf *buf, const taginfo *t, size_t len)
 static krb5_error_code
 get_tag(const uint8_t *asn1, size_t len, taginfo *tag_out,
         const uint8_t **contents_out, size_t *clen_out,
-        const uint8_t **remainder_out, size_t *rlen_out)
+        const uint8_t **remainder_out, size_t *rlen_out, int recursion)
 {
     krb5_error_code ret;
     uint8_t o;
@@ -394,9 +394,11 @@ get_tag(const uint8_t *asn1, size_t len, taginfo *tag_out,
         /* Indefinite form (should not be present in DER, but we accept it). */
         if (tag_out->construction != CONSTRUCTED)
             return ASN1_MISMATCH_INDEF;
+        if (recursion >= 32)
+            return ASN1_OVERFLOW;
         p = asn1;
         while (!(len >= 2 && p[0] == 0 && p[1] == 0)) {
-            ret = get_tag(p, len, &t, &c, &clen, &p, &len);
+            ret = get_tag(p, len, &t, &c, &clen, &p, &len, recursion + 1);
             if (ret)
                 return ret;
         }
@@ -613,7 +615,7 @@ split_der(asn1buf *buf, uint8_t *const *der, size_t len, taginfo *tag_out)
     const uint8_t *contents, *remainder;
     size_t clen, rlen;
 
-    ret = get_tag(*der, len, tag_out, &contents, &clen, &remainder, &rlen);
+    ret = get_tag(*der, len, tag_out, &contents, &clen, &remainder, &rlen, 0);
     if (ret)
         return ret;
     if (rlen != 0)
@@ -1199,7 +1201,7 @@ decode_atype(const taginfo *t, const uint8_t *asn1, size_t len,
         const uint8_t *rem;
         size_t rlen;
         if (!tag->implicit) {
-            ret = get_tag(asn1, len, &inner_tag, &asn1, &len, &rem, &rlen);
+            ret = get_tag(asn1, len, &inner_tag, &asn1, &len, &rem, &rlen, 0);
             if (ret)
                 return ret;
             /* Note: we don't check rlen (it should be 0). */
@@ -1420,7 +1422,7 @@ decode_sequence(const uint8_t *asn1, size_t len, const struct seq_info *seq,
     for (i = 0; i < seq->n_fields; i++) {
         if (len == 0)
             break;
-        ret = get_tag(asn1, len, &t, &contents, &clen, &asn1, &len);
+        ret = get_tag(asn1, len, &t, &contents, &clen, &asn1, &len, 0);
         if (ret)
             goto error;
         /*
@@ -1478,7 +1480,7 @@ decode_sequence_of(const uint8_t *asn1, size_t len,
     *seq_out = NULL;
     *count_out = 0;
     while (len > 0) {
-        ret = get_tag(asn1, len, &t, &contents, &clen, &asn1, &len);
+        ret = get_tag(asn1, len, &t, &contents, &clen, &asn1, &len, 0);
         if (ret)
             goto error;
         if (!check_atype_tag(elemtype, &t)) {
@@ -1584,7 +1586,7 @@ k5_asn1_full_decode(const krb5_data *code, const struct atype_info *a,
 
     *retrep = NULL;
     ret = get_tag((uint8_t *)code->data, code->length, &t, &contents,
-                  &clen, &remainder, &rlen);
+                  &clen, &remainder, &rlen, 0);
     if (ret)
         return ret;
     /* rlen should be 0, but we don't check it (and due to padding in

programming_language: C