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authorMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>2023-07-06 16:36:35 +0100
committerTomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>2023-07-19 11:20:04 +0200
commit9e0094e2aa1b3428a12d5095132f133c078d3c3d (patch)
treef689e3cb7c4e29af012e5e678b5ba74da9397848
parent709ef4093520a91f4d723aef29c857c6fd625cad (diff)
Fix DH_check() excessive time with over sized modulus
The DH_check() function checks numerous aspects of the key or parameters that have been supplied. Some of those checks use the supplied modulus value even if it is excessively large. There is already a maximum DH modulus size (10,000 bits) over which OpenSSL will not generate or derive keys. DH_check() will however still perform various tests for validity on such a large modulus. We introduce a new maximum (32,768) over which DH_check() will just fail. An application that calls DH_check() and supplies a key or parameters obtained from an untrusted source could be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack. The function DH_check() is itself called by a number of other OpenSSL functions. An application calling any of those other functions may similarly be affected. The other functions affected by this are DH_check_ex() and EVP_PKEY_param_check(). CVE-2023-3446 Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Tom Cosgrove <tom.cosgrove@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de> Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/21451)
-rw-r--r--crypto/dh/dh_check.c6
-rw-r--r--include/openssl/dh.h6
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/dh/dh_check.c b/crypto/dh/dh_check.c
index 0b8a17c675..98014593b6 100644
--- a/crypto/dh/dh_check.c
+++ b/crypto/dh/dh_check.c
@@ -152,6 +152,12 @@ int DH_check(const DH *dh, int *ret)
if (nid != NID_undef)
return 1;
+ /* Don't do any checks at all with an excessively large modulus */
+ if (BN_num_bits(dh->params.p) > OPENSSL_DH_CHECK_MAX_MODULUS_BITS) {
+ ERR_raise(ERR_LIB_DH, DH_R_MODULUS_TOO_LARGE);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
if (!DH_check_params(dh, ret))
return 0;
diff --git a/include/openssl/dh.h b/include/openssl/dh.h
index 2c6219e7c2..da6e7b06c8 100644
--- a/include/openssl/dh.h
+++ b/include/openssl/dh.h
@@ -92,7 +92,11 @@ int EVP_PKEY_CTX_get0_dh_kdf_ukm(EVP_PKEY_CTX *ctx, unsigned char **ukm);
# include <openssl/dherr.h>
# ifndef OPENSSL_DH_MAX_MODULUS_BITS
-# define OPENSSL_DH_MAX_MODULUS_BITS 10000
+# define OPENSSL_DH_MAX_MODULUS_BITS 10000
+# endif
+
+# ifndef OPENSSL_DH_CHECK_MAX_MODULUS_BITS
+# define OPENSSL_DH_CHECK_MAX_MODULUS_BITS 32768
# endif
# define OPENSSL_DH_FIPS_MIN_MODULUS_BITS 1024