linux/crypto/asymmetric_keys
Eric Biggers 971b42c038 PKCS#7: fix certificate chain verification
When pkcs7_verify_sig_chain() is building the certificate chain for a
SignerInfo using the certificates in the PKCS#7 message, it is passing
the wrong arguments to public_key_verify_signature().  Consequently,
when the next certificate is supposed to be used to verify the previous
certificate, the next certificate is actually used to verify itself.

An attacker can use this bug to create a bogus certificate chain that
has no cryptographic relationship between the beginning and end.

Fortunately I couldn't quite find a way to use this to bypass the
overall signature verification, though it comes very close.  Here's the
reasoning: due to the bug, every certificate in the chain beyond the
first actually has to be self-signed (where "self-signed" here refers to
the actual key and signature; an attacker might still manipulate the
certificate fields such that the self_signed flag doesn't actually get
set, and thus the chain doesn't end immediately).  But to pass trust
validation (pkcs7_validate_trust()), either the SignerInfo or one of the
certificates has to actually be signed by a trusted key.  Since only
self-signed certificates can be added to the chain, the only way for an
attacker to introduce a trusted signature is to include a self-signed
trusted certificate.

But, when pkcs7_validate_trust_one() reaches that certificate, instead
of trying to verify the signature on that certificate, it will actually
look up the corresponding trusted key, which will succeed, and then try
to verify the *previous* certificate, which will fail.  Thus, disaster
is narrowly averted (as far as I could tell).

Fixes: 6c2dc5ae4a ("X.509: Extract signature digest and make self-signed cert checks earlier")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.7+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2018-02-22 14:38:33 +00:00
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.gitignore X.509: Add a crypto key parser for binary (DER) X.509 certificates 2012-10-08 13:50:22 +10:30
asymmetric_keys.h KEYS: Generalise x509_request_asymmetric_key() 2016-04-11 22:41:56 +01:00
asymmetric_type.c KEYS: checking the input id parameters before finding asymmetric key 2017-10-18 09:12:40 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mscode_parser.c pefile: Fix the failure of calculation for digest 2016-07-18 12:19:46 +10:00
mscode.asn1 pefile: Parse the "Microsoft individual code signing" data blob 2014-07-09 14:58:37 +01:00
pkcs7_key_type.c pkcs7: Set the module licence to prevent tainting 2017-11-15 16:38:45 +00:00
pkcs7_parser.c pkcs7: return correct error code if pkcs7_check_authattrs() fails 2017-12-08 15:13:28 +00:00
pkcs7_parser.h PKCS#7: Handle blacklisted certificates 2017-04-03 16:07:25 +01:00
pkcs7_trust.c pkcs7: fix check for self-signed certificate 2017-12-08 15:13:28 +00:00
pkcs7_verify.c PKCS#7: fix certificate chain verification 2018-02-22 14:38:33 +00:00
pkcs7.asn1 PKCS#7: Appropriately restrict authenticated attributes and content type 2015-08-12 17:01:01 +01:00
public_key.c KEYS: be careful with error codes in public_key_verify_signature() 2017-12-08 15:13:29 +00:00
restrict.c KEYS: Keyring asymmetric key restrict method with chaining 2017-04-04 14:10:13 -07:00
signature.c KEYS: Add identifier pointers to public_key_signature struct 2016-04-06 16:13:33 +01:00
verify_pefile.c crypto : asymmetric_keys : verify_pefile:zero memory content before freeing 2017-06-09 13:29:50 +10:00
verify_pefile.h KEYS: Generalise system_verify_data() to provide access to internal content 2016-04-06 16:14:24 +01:00
x509_akid.asn1 X.509: Extract both parts of the AuthorityKeyIdentifier 2015-08-07 16:26:13 +01:00
x509_cert_parser.c X.509: reject invalid BIT STRING for subjectPublicKey 2017-12-08 15:13:27 +00:00
x509_parser.h X.509: Allow X.509 certs to be blacklisted 2017-04-03 16:07:25 +01:00
x509_public_key.c X.509: fix comparisons of ->pkey_algo 2017-12-08 15:13:29 +00:00
x509.asn1 X.509: Add bits needed for PKCS#7 2014-07-01 16:40:19 +01:00