Hi,
So I screwed up when writing the support for the curve25519 KEX method
that doesn't depend on OpenSSL's BIGNUM type - a bug in my code left
leading zero bytes where they should have been skipped. The impact of
this is that OpenSSH 6.5 and 6.6 will fail during key exchange with a
peer that implements curve25519-sha256 at libssh.org properly about 0.2%
of the time (one in every 512ish connections).
We've fixed this for OpenSSH 6.7 by avoiding the curve25519-sha256
key exchange for previous versions, but I'd recommend distributors
of OpenSSH apply this patch so the affected code doesn't become
too entrenched in LTS releases.
The patch fixes the bug and makes OpenSSH identify itself as 6.6.1 so as
to distinguish itself from the incorrect versions so the compatibility
code to disable the affected KEX isn't activated.
I've committed this on the 6.6 branch too.
Apologies for the hassle.
-d
Index: version.h
==================================================================RCS file:
/var/cvs/openssh/version.h,v
retrieving revision 1.82
diff -u -p -r1.82 version.h
--- version.h 27 Feb 2014 23:01:54 -0000 1.82
+++ version.h 20 Apr 2014 03:35:15 -0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
/* $OpenBSD: version.h,v 1.70 2014/02/27 22:57:40 djm Exp $ */
-#define SSH_VERSION "OpenSSH_6.6"
+#define SSH_VERSION "OpenSSH_6.6.1"
#define SSH_PORTABLE "p1"
#define SSH_RELEASE SSH_VERSION SSH_PORTABLE
Index: compat.c
==================================================================RCS file:
/var/cvs/openssh/compat.c,v
retrieving revision 1.82
retrieving revision 1.85
diff -u -p -r1.82 -r1.85
--- compat.c 31 Dec 2013 01:25:41 -0000 1.82
+++ compat.c 20 Apr 2014 03:33:59 -0000 1.85
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@ compat_datafellows(const char *version)
{ "Sun_SSH_1.0*", SSH_BUG_NOREKEY|SSH_BUG_EXTEOF},
{ "OpenSSH_4*", 0 },
{ "OpenSSH_5*", SSH_NEW_OPENSSH|SSH_BUG_DYNAMIC_RPORT},
+ { "OpenSSH_6.6.1*", SSH_NEW_OPENSSH},
+ { "OpenSSH_6.5*,"
+ "OpenSSH_6.6*", SSH_NEW_OPENSSH|SSH_BUG_CURVE25519PAD},
{ "OpenSSH*", SSH_NEW_OPENSSH },
{ "*MindTerm*", 0 },
{ "2.1.0*", SSH_BUG_SIGBLOB|SSH_BUG_HMAC|
@@ -251,7 +254,6 @@ compat_cipher_proposal(char *cipher_prop
return cipher_prop;
}
-
char *
compat_pkalg_proposal(char *pkalg_prop)
{
@@ -263,5 +265,18 @@ compat_pkalg_proposal(char *pkalg_prop)
if (*pkalg_prop == '\0')
fatal("No supported PK algorithms found");
return pkalg_prop;
+}
+
+char *
+compat_kex_proposal(char *kex_prop)
+{
+ if (!(datafellows & SSH_BUG_CURVE25519PAD))
+ return kex_prop;
+ debug2("%s: original KEX proposal: %s", __func__, kex_prop);
+ kex_prop = filter_proposal(kex_prop, "curve25519-sha256 at
libssh.org");
+ debug2("%s: compat KEX proposal: %s", __func__, kex_prop);
+ if (*kex_prop == '\0')
+ fatal("No supported key exchange algorithms found");
+ return kex_prop;
}
Index: compat.h
==================================================================RCS file:
/var/cvs/openssh/compat.h,v
retrieving revision 1.42
retrieving revision 1.43
diff -u -p -r1.42 -r1.43
--- compat.h 31 Dec 2013 01:25:41 -0000 1.42
+++ compat.h 20 Apr 2014 03:25:31 -0000 1.43
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
#define SSH_BUG_RFWD_ADDR 0x02000000
#define SSH_NEW_OPENSSH 0x04000000
#define SSH_BUG_DYNAMIC_RPORT 0x08000000
+#define SSH_BUG_CURVE25519PAD 0x10000000
void enable_compat13(void);
void enable_compat20(void);
@@ -66,6 +67,7 @@ void compat_datafellows(const char *
int proto_spec(const char *);
char *compat_cipher_proposal(char *);
char *compat_pkalg_proposal(char *);
+char *compat_kex_proposal(char *);
extern int compat13;
extern int compat20;
Index: sshd.c
==================================================================RCS file:
/var/cvs/openssh/sshd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.448
retrieving revision 1.453
diff -u -p -r1.448 -r1.453
--- sshd.c 26 Feb 2014 23:20:08 -0000 1.448
+++ sshd.c 20 Apr 2014 03:28:41 -0000 1.453
@@ -2462,6 +2438,9 @@ do_ssh2_kex(void)
if (options.kex_algorithms != NULL)
myproposal[PROPOSAL_KEX_ALGS] = options.kex_algorithms;
+ myproposal[PROPOSAL_KEX_ALGS] = compat_kex_proposal(
+ myproposal[PROPOSAL_KEX_ALGS]);
+
if (options.rekey_limit || options.rekey_interval)
packet_set_rekey_limits((u_int32_t)options.rekey_limit,
(time_t)options.rekey_interval);
Index: sshconnect2.c
==================================================================RCS file:
/var/cvs/openssh/sshconnect2.c,v
retrieving revision 1.197
retrieving revision 1.199
diff -u -p -r1.197 -r1.199
--- sshconnect2.c 4 Feb 2014 00:20:16 -0000 1.197
+++ sshconnect2.c 20 Apr 2014 03:25:31 -0000 1.199
@@ -195,6 +196,8 @@ ssh_kex2(char *host, struct sockaddr *ho
}
if (options.kex_algorithms != NULL)
myproposal[PROPOSAL_KEX_ALGS] = options.kex_algorithms;
+ myproposal[PROPOSAL_KEX_ALGS] = compat_kex_proposal(
+ myproposal[PROPOSAL_KEX_ALGS]);
if (options.rekey_limit || options.rekey_interval)
packet_set_rekey_limits((u_int32_t)options.rekey_limit,
Index: bufaux.c
==================================================================RCS file:
/var/cvs/openssh/bufaux.c,v
retrieving revision 1.62
retrieving revision 1.63
diff -u -p -r1.62 -r1.63
--- bufaux.c 4 Feb 2014 00:20:15 -0000 1.62
+++ bufaux.c 20 Apr 2014 03:24:50 -0000 1.63
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: bufaux.c,v 1.56 2014/02/02 03:44:31 djm Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: bufaux.c,v 1.57 2014/04/16 23:22:45 djm Exp $ */
/*
* Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo at cs.hut.fi>
* Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo at cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
@@ -372,6 +372,9 @@ buffer_put_bignum2_from_string(Buffer *b
if (l > 8 * 1024)
fatal("%s: length %u too long", __func__, l);
+ /* Skip leading zero bytes */
+ for (; l > 0 && *s == 0; l--, s++)
+ ;
p = buf = xmalloc(l + 1);
/*
* If most significant bit is set then prepend a zero byte to