If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or if
OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and Baishakhi
Ray.
This is potentially scary stuff, so let me walk through my analysis.
I think this is a bug, and a backport candidate, but not remotely
triggerable in any useful way.
Observation 1a:
Looking over the OpenSSL code here, the only way we can really fail in
the non-engine case is if malloc() fails. But if malloc() is failing,
then tor_malloc() calls should be tor_asserting -- the only way that an
attacker could do an exploit here would be to figure out some way to
make malloc() fail when openssl does it, but work whenever Tor does it.
(Also ordinary malloc() doesn't fail on platforms like Linux that
overcommit.)
Observation 1b:
Although engines are _allowed_ to fail in extra ways, I can't find much
evidence online that they actually _do_ fail in practice. More evidence
would be nice, though.
Observation 2:
We don't call crypto_pk_generate*() all that often, and we don't do it
in response to external inputs. The only way to get it to happen
remotely would be by causing a hidden service to build new introduction
points.
Observation 3a:
So, let's assume that both of the above observations are wrong, and the
attacker can make us generate a crypto_pk_env_t with a dangling pointer
in its 'key' field, and not immediately crash.
This dangling pointer will point to what used to be an RSA structure,
with the fields all set to NULL. Actually using this RSA structure,
before the memory is reused for anything else, will cause a crash.
In nearly every function where we call crypto_pk_generate*(), we quickly
use the RSA key pointer -- either to sign something, or to encode the
key, or to free the key. The only exception is when we generate an
intro key in rend_consider_services_intro_points(). In that case, we
don't actually use the key until the intro circuit is opened -- at which
point we encode it, and use it to sign an introduction request.
So in order to exploit this bug to do anything besides crash Tor, the
attacker needs to make sure that by the time the introduction circuit
completes, either:
* the e, d, and n BNs look valid, and at least one of the other BNs is
still NULL.
OR
* all 8 of the BNs must look valid.
To look like a valid BN, *they* all need to have their 'top' index plus
their 'd' pointer indicate an addressable region in memory.
So actually getting useful data of of this, rather than a crash, is
going to be pretty damn hard. You'd have to force an introduction point
to be created (or wait for one to be created), and force that particular
crypto_pk_generate*() to fail, and then arrange for the memory that the
RSA points to to in turn point to 3...8 valid BNs, all by the time the
introduction circuit completes.
Naturally, the signature won't check as valid [*], so the intro point
will reject the ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. So you need to _be_ the
introduction point, or you don't actually see this information.
[*] Okay, so if you could somehow make the 'rsa' pointer point to a
different valid RSA key, then you'd get a valid signature of an
ESTABLISH_INTRO cell using a key that was supposed to be used for
something else ... but nothing else looks like that, so you can't use
that signature elsewhere.
Observation 3b:
Your best bet as an attacker would be to make the dangling RSA pointer
actually contain a fake method, with a fake RSA_private_encrypt
function that actually pointed to code you wanted to execute. You'd
still need to transit 3 or 4 pointers deep though in order to make that
work.
Conclusion:
By 1, you probably can't trigger this without Tor crashing from OOM.
By 2, you probably can't trigger this reliably.
By 3, even if I'm wrong about 1 and 2, you have to jump through a pretty
big array of hoops in order to get any kind of data leak or code
execution.
So I'm calling it a bug, but not a security hole. Still worth
patching.
The problem is that "q" is always set on the first iteration even
if the question is not a supported question. This set of "q" is
not necessary, and will be handled after exiting the loop if there
if a supported q->type was found.
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This closes bug 18162; bugfix on a45b131590, which fixed a related
issue long ago.
In addition to the #18162 issues, this fixes a signed integer overflow
in smarltist_add_all(), which is probably not so great either.
Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow.
Closes bug #18089. Reported by "gk", patch by "teor".
Bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha (#7352),
commit 49dd5ef3 on 7 Nov 2012.
There was a dead check when we made sure that an array member of a
struct was non-NULL. Tor has been doing this check since at least
0.2.3, maybe earlier.
Fixes bug 17781.
Without this check, we potentially look up to 3 characters before
the start of a malloc'd segment, which could provoke a crash under
certain (weird afaik) circumstances.
Fixes 17404; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
When we ran out of intro points for a hidden service (which could
happen on a newnym), we would change the connection's state back to
"waiting for hidden service descriptor." But this would make an
assertion fail if we went on to call circuit_get_open_circ_or_launch
again.
This fixes bug 16013; I believe the bug was introduced in
38be533c69, where we made it possible for
circuit_get_open_circ_or_launch() to change the connection's state.
When I fixed#11243, I made it so we would take the digest of a
descriptor before tokenizing it, so we could desist from download
attempts if parsing failed. But when I did that, I didn't remove an
assertion that the descriptor began with "onion-key". Usually, this
was enforced by "find_start_of_next_microdescriptor", but when
find_start_of_next_microdescriptor returned NULL, the assertion was
triggered.
Fixes bug 16400. Thanks to torkeln for reporting and
cypherpunks_backup for diagnosing and writing the first fix here.
If crypto_early_init fails, a typo in a return value from tor_init
means that tor_main continues running, rather than returning
an error value.
Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on d3fb846d8c in 0.2.5.2-alpha,
introduced when implementing #4900.
Patch by "teor".
This reverts commit 9407040c59.
Small fix, "e->received" had to be removed since that variable doesn't exist
anymore.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@ev0ke.net>
The length of auth_data from an INTRODUCE2 cell is checked when the
auth_type is recognized (1 or 2), but not for any other non-zero
auth_type. Later, auth_data is assumed to have at least
REND_DESC_COOKIE_LEN bytes, leading to a client-triggered out of bounds
read.
Fixed by checking auth_len before comparing the descriptor cookie
against known clients.
Fixes#15823; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
Fixes#15850, part of #15801. Change file is added by this commit. The
original comment in the reverted commit is removed because right now we
*need* a DirPort until #15849 is implemented so no doubt nor confusion there
anymore.
This reverts commit 80bed1ac96.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@ev0ke.net>
The compiler is allowed to assume that a "uint64_t *" is aligned
correctly, and will inline a version of memcpy that acts as such.
Use "uint8_t *", so the compiler does the right thing.
PTs expect the auth cookie to be available immedieately after launch,
leading to a race condition when PTs opt to cache the extorport cookie
once immediately after startup.
Fixes#15240.
When calling pthread_attr_setdetachstate, we were using 1 as the
argument. But the pthreads documentation says that you have to say
PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACH, which on Solaris is apparently 0x40. Calling
pthread_attr_setdetachstate with 1 crashes on Solaris with FLTBOUNDS.
(Because we're so late in the release cycle, I made the code define
PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED if it doesn't exist, so we aren't likely to
break any other platforms.)
This bug was introduced when we made threading mandatory in
0.2.6.1-alpha; previously, we had force-disabled threading on
Solaris. See #9495 discussion.
Nick Mathewson
Karsten Loesing
Scott Dial
teor (Tim Wilson-Brown)
Arlo Breault
David Goulet
Yawning Angel
Peter Palfrader
John Brooks
George Kadianakis