FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-21:11.aesni
27 May, 2021 by errata-notices@freebsd.org | freebsd
FreeBSD-EN-21:11.aesni Errata Notice The FreeBSD Project Topic: Race condition in aesni(4) encrypt-then-auth operations Category: core Module: aesni Announced: 2021-05-26 Affects: FreeBSD 12.2 Corrected: 2021-04-27 19:16:35 UTC (stable/12, 12.2-STABLE) 2021-05-26 20:40:11 UTC (releng/12.2, 12.2-RELEASE-p7) For general information regarding FreeBSD Errata Notices and Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit <URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/>. I. Background The aesni(4) driver provides implementations of various cryptographic operations using specialized CPU instructions available on contemporary Intel and AMD CPUs. This provides improved throughput relative to pure software implementations of the same operations. II. Problem Description aesni(4) implements SHA-1 and SHA-2 and can compute HMACs using these functions. One step of the HMAC computation involves the computation of a derived key. This step was implemented such that if multiple threads were concurrently computing an HMAC using the same crypto(9) session, the kernel's copy of the session key could be corrupted. III. Impact This bug could cause aesni(4) to return incorrect digests of input data, or incorrect report a digest verification failure. Since the bug is only triggered when multiple threads are sharing a crypto(9) session, some consumers are unaffected. For example, geli(8) will not trigger the bug. It is possible to trigger the bug with IPSec or KGSSAPI, or via crypto(4) if the underlying application is multithreaded and shares sessions among multiple threads. IV. Workaround The aesni(4) kernel module may be unloaded to work around the problem. Note that this may incur a substantial hit to performance. Workloads not making use of HMAC-based authentication using aesni(4) are unaffected. For example, aesni(4) implements AES-GCM, and that implementation is not susceptible to this problem. V. Solution Upgrade your system to a supported FreeBSD stable or release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date and reboot. Perform one of the following: 1) To update your system via a binary patch: Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the amd64, i386, or (on FreeBSD 13 and later) arm64 platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install # shutdown -r +10min "Rebooting for an erratum update" 2) To update your system via a source code patch: The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable FreeBSD release branches. a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the detached PGP signature using your PGP utility. # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-21:11/aesni.patch # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-21:11/aesni.patch.asc # gpg --verify aesni.patch.asc b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch < /path/to/patch c) Recompile your kernel as described in <URL:https://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/kernelconfig.html> and reboot the system. VI. Correction details This issue is corrected by the corresponding Git commit hash or Subversion revision number in the following stable and release branches: Branch/path Hash Revision - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- stable/12/ r369665 releng/12.2/ r369860 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Run the following command to see which files were modified by a particular revision, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number: # svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number: <URL:https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=NNNNNN> VII. References <URL:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id%1462> The latest revision of this advisory is available at <URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-21:11.aesni.asc>