CVE-2015-1791 (published 2015-06-12T19:59Z)

Race condition in the ssl3_get_new_session_ticket function in ssl/s3_clnt.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zg, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0s, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1n, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2b, when used for a multi-threaded client, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (double free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by providing a NewSessionTicket during an attempt to reuse a ticket that had been obtained earlier.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 6.8 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-362
cwe_name: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
description: The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.
extended_description: 
            This can have security implications when the expected synchronization is in security-critical code, such as recording whether a user is authenticated or modifying important state information that should not be influenced by an outsider.
            A race condition occurs within concurrent environments, and is effectively a property of a code sequence. Depending on the context, a code sequence may be in the form of a function call, a small number of instructions, a series of program invocations, etc.
            A race condition violates these properties, which are closely related:
               
                  Exclusivity - the code sequence is given exclusive access to the shared resource, i.e., no other code sequence can modify properties of the shared resource before the original sequence has completed execution.
                  Atomicity - the code sequence is behaviorally atomic, i.e., no other thread or process can concurrently execute the same sequence of instructions (or a subset) against the same resource.
               
            A race condition exists when an "interfering code sequence" can still access the shared resource, violating exclusivity. Programmers may assume that certain code sequences execute too quickly to be affected by an interfering code sequence; when they are not, this violates atomicity. For example, the single "x++" statement may appear atomic at the code layer, but it is actually non-atomic at the instruction layer, since it involves a read (the original value of x), followed by a computation (x+1), followed by a write (save the result to x).
            The interfering code sequence could be "trusted" or "untrusted." A trusted interfering code sequence occurs within the product; it cannot be modified by the attacker, and it can only be invoked indirectly. An untrusted interfering code sequence can be authored directly by the attacker, and typically it is external to the vulnerable product.
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/openssl/openssl
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/openssl/openssl
author: Matt Caswell
author_date: 2015-05-18 16:27:48+01:00
msg: Fix race condition in NewSessionTicket

If a NewSessionTicket is received by a multi-threaded client when
attempting to reuse a previous ticket then a race condition can occur
potentially leading to a double free of the ticket data.

CVE-2015-1791

This also fixes RT#3808 where a session ID is changed for a session already
in the client session cache. Since the session ID is the key to the cache
this breaks the cache access.

Parts of this patch were inspired by this Akamai change:
https://github.com/akamai/openssl/commit/c0bf69a791239ceec64509f9f19fcafb2461b0d3

Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/openssl/openssl
repo_name: openssl/openssl
description: TLS/SSL and crypto library
repo_language: C
owner: openssl
file_changes: filename: ssl.h
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -2048,6 +2048,7 @@ void ERR_load_SSL_strings(void);
 # define SSL_F_SSL_READ                                   223
 # define SSL_F_SSL_SCAN_CLIENTHELLO_TLSEXT                320
 # define SSL_F_SSL_SCAN_SERVERHELLO_TLSEXT                321
+# define SSL_F_SSL_SESSION_DUP                            348
 # define SSL_F_SSL_SESSION_NEW                            189
 # define SSL_F_SSL_SESSION_PRINT_FP                       190
 # define SSL_F_SSL_SESSION_SET1_ID_CONTEXT                312

programming_language: C
filename: s3_clnt.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -2238,6 +2238,38 @@ int ssl3_get_new_session_ticket(SSL *s)
     }
 
     p = d = (unsigned char *)s->init_msg;
+
+    if (s->session->session_id_length > 0) {
+        int i = s->session_ctx->session_cache_mode;
+        SSL_SESSION *new_sess;
+        /*
+         * We reused an existing session, so we need to replace it with a new
+         * one
+         */
+        if (i & SSL_SESS_CACHE_CLIENT) {
+            /*
+             * Remove the old session from the cache
+             */
+            if (i & SSL_SESS_CACHE_NO_INTERNAL_STORE) {
+                if (s->session_ctx->remove_session_cb != NULL)
+                    s->session_ctx->remove_session_cb(s->session_ctx,
+                                                      s->session);
+            } else {
+                /* We carry on if this fails */
+                SSL_CTX_remove_session(s->session_ctx, s->session);
+            }
+        }
+
+        if ((new_sess = ssl_session_dup(s->session, 0)) == 0) {
+            al = SSL_AD_INTERNAL_ERROR;
+            SSLerr(SSL_F_SSL3_GET_NEW_SESSION_TICKET, ERR_R_MALLOC_FAILURE);
+            goto f_err;
+        }
+
+        SSL_SESSION_free(s->session);
+        s->session = new_sess;
+    }
+
     n2l(p, s->session->tlsext_tick_lifetime_hint);
     n2s(p, ticklen);
     /* ticket_lifetime_hint + ticket_length + ticket */

programming_language: C
filename: ssl_err.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ static ERR_STRING_DATA SSL_str_functs[] = {
      "SSL_SCAN_CLIENTHELLO_TLSEXT"},
     {ERR_FUNC(SSL_F_SSL_SCAN_SERVERHELLO_TLSEXT),
      "SSL_SCAN_SERVERHELLO_TLSEXT"},
+    {ERR_FUNC(SSL_F_SSL_SESSION_DUP), "ssl_session_dup"},
     {ERR_FUNC(SSL_F_SSL_SESSION_NEW), "SSL_SESSION_new"},
     {ERR_FUNC(SSL_F_SSL_SESSION_PRINT_FP), "SSL_SESSION_print_fp"},
     {ERR_FUNC(SSL_F_SSL_SESSION_SET1_ID_CONTEXT),

programming_language: C
filename: ssl_locl.h
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1860,6 +1860,7 @@ __owur int ssl_set_peer_cert_type(SESS_CERT *c, int type);
 __owur int ssl_get_new_session(SSL *s, int session);
 __owur int ssl_get_prev_session(SSL *s, unsigned char *session, int len,
                          const unsigned char *limit);
+__owur SSL_SESSION *ssl_session_dup(SSL_SESSION *src, int ticket);
 __owur int ssl_cipher_id_cmp(const SSL_CIPHER *a, const SSL_CIPHER *b);
 DECLARE_OBJ_BSEARCH_GLOBAL_CMP_FN(SSL_CIPHER, SSL_CIPHER, ssl_cipher_id);
 __owur int ssl_cipher_ptr_id_cmp(const SSL_CIPHER *const *ap,

programming_language: C
filename: ssl_sess.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -225,6 +225,122 @@ SSL_SESSION *SSL_SESSION_new(void)
     return (ss);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Create a new SSL_SESSION and duplicate the contents of |src| into it. If
+ * ticket == 0 then no ticket information is duplicated, otherwise it is.
+ */
+SSL_SESSION *ssl_session_dup(SSL_SESSION *src, int ticket)
+{
+    SSL_SESSION *dest;
+
+    dest = OPENSSL_malloc(sizeof(*src));
+    if (dest == NULL) {
+        goto err;
+    }
+    memcpy(dest, src, sizeof(*dest));
+
+#ifndef OPENSSL_NO_PSK
+    if (src->psk_identity_hint) {
+        dest->psk_identity_hint = BUF_strdup(src->psk_identity_hint);
+        if (dest->psk_identity_hint == NULL) {
+            goto err;
+        }
+    } else {
+        dest->psk_identity_hint = NULL;
+    }
+    if (src->psk_identity) {
+        dest->psk_identity = BUF_strdup(src->psk_identity);
+        if (dest->psk_identity == NULL) {
+            goto err;
+        }
+    } else {
+        dest->psk_identity = NULL;
+    }
+#endif
+
+    if (src->sess_cert != NULL)
+        CRYPTO_add(&src->sess_cert->references, 1, CRYPTO_LOCK_SSL_SESS_CERT);
+
+    if (src->peer != NULL)
+        CRYPTO_add(&src->peer->references, 1, CRYPTO_LOCK_X509);
+
+    dest->references = 1;
+
+    if(src->ciphers != NULL) {
+        dest->ciphers = sk_SSL_CIPHER_dup(src->ciphers);
+        if (dest->ciphers == NULL)
+            goto err;
+    } else {
+        dest->ciphers = NULL;
+    }
+
+    if (!CRYPTO_dup_ex_data(CRYPTO_EX_INDEX_SSL_SESSION,
+                                            &dest->ex_data, &src->ex_data)) {
+        goto err;
+    }
+
+    /* We deliberately don't copy the prev and next pointers */
+    dest->prev = NULL;
+    dest->next = NULL;
+
+#ifndef OPENSSL_NO_TLSEXT
+    if (src->tlsext_hostname) {
+        dest->tlsext_hostname = BUF_strdup(src->tlsext_hostname);
+        if (dest->tlsext_hostname == NULL) {
+            goto err;
+        }
+    } else {
+        dest->tlsext_hostname = NULL;
+    }
+# ifndef OPENSSL_NO_EC
+    if (src->tlsext_ecpointformatlist) {
+        dest->tlsext_ecpointformatlist =
+            BUF_memdup(src->tlsext_ecpointformatlist,
+                       src->tlsext_ecpointformatlist_length);
+        if (dest->tlsext_ecpointformatlist == NULL)
+            goto err;
+        dest->tlsext_ecpointformatlist_length =
+            src->tlsext_ecpointformatlist_length;
+    }
+    if (src->tlsext_ellipticcurvelist) {
+        dest->tlsext_ellipticcurvelist =
+            BUF_memdup(src->tlsext_ellipticcurvelist,
+                       src->tlsext_ellipticcurvelist_length);
+        if (dest->tlsext_ellipticcurvelist == NULL)
+            goto err;
+        dest->tlsext_ellipticcurvelist_length =
+            src->tlsext_ellipticcurvelist_length;
+    }
+# endif
+#endif
+
+    if (ticket != 0) {
+        dest->tlsext_tick_lifetime_hint = src->tlsext_tick_lifetime_hint;
+        dest->tlsext_ticklen = src->tlsext_ticklen;
+        if((dest->tlsext_tick = OPENSSL_malloc(src->tlsext_ticklen)) == NULL) {
+            goto err;
+        }
+    }
+
+#ifndef OPENSSL_NO_SRP
+    dest->srp_username = NULL;
+    if (src->srp_username) {
+        dest->srp_username = BUF_strdup(src->srp_username);
+        if (dest->srp_username == NULL) {
+            goto err;
+        }
+    } else {
+        dest->srp_username = NULL;
+    }
+#endif
+
+    return dest;
+err:
+    SSLerr(SSL_F_SSL_SESSION_DUP, ERR_R_MALLOC_FAILURE);
+    SSL_SESSION_free(dest);
+    return NULL;
+}
+
 const unsigned char *SSL_SESSION_get_id(const SSL_SESSION *s,
                                         unsigned int *len)
 {

programming_language: C