Hi,

On 25/03/2021 18:44, Arne Schwabe wrote:
> These have been troublesome in the past and also today's CVE-2021-3449
> DOS is only exploitable if renegotiation is enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arne Schwabe <a...@rfc2549.org>

What is the practical effect of this change?
With the current code (before this patch) when would OpenSSL/mbedTLS
start a renegotiation on its own?

May it have had any impact on the OpenVPN protocol until now?


Cheers,


> ---
>  src/openvpn/ssl_mbedtls.c | 3 +++
>  src/openvpn/ssl_openssl.c | 3 +++
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/openvpn/ssl_mbedtls.c b/src/openvpn/ssl_mbedtls.c
> index 4626e9838..1628a02e3 100644
> --- a/src/openvpn/ssl_mbedtls.c
> +++ b/src/openvpn/ssl_mbedtls.c
> @@ -1086,6 +1086,9 @@ key_state_ssl_init(struct key_state_ssl *ks_ssl,
>      {
>          mbedtls_ssl_conf_curves(ks_ssl->ssl_config, ssl_ctx->groups);
>      }
> +    /* Disable renegotiations. OpenVPN has its own mechanism to create whole
> +     * new SSL session. And these have been problematic in the past */
> +    mbedtls_ssl_conf_renegotiation(ks_ssl->ssl_config, 
> MBEDTLS_SSL_RENEGOTIATION_DISABLED);
>  
>      /* Disable record splitting (for now).  OpenVPN assumes records are sent
>       * unfragmented, and changing that will require thorough review and
> diff --git a/src/openvpn/ssl_openssl.c b/src/openvpn/ssl_openssl.c
> index d161f48b8..a11ca5b97 100644
> --- a/src/openvpn/ssl_openssl.c
> +++ b/src/openvpn/ssl_openssl.c
> @@ -320,6 +320,9 @@ tls_ctx_set_options(struct tls_root_ctx *ctx, unsigned 
> int ssl_flags)
>      sslopt |= SSL_OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE;
>  #endif
>      sslopt |= SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION;
> +    /* Disable renegotiations. OpenVPN has its own mechanism to create whole
> +     * new SSL session. And these have been probelmatic in the past */
> +    sslopt |= SSL_OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION;
>  
>      SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx->ctx, sslopt);
>  
> 

-- 
Antonio Quartulli


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