FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-23:17.ossl
5 December, 2023 by errata-notices@freebsd.org | freebsd
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FreeBSD-EN-23:17.ossl Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: ossl(4)'s AES-GCM implementation may give incorrect results
Category: core
Module: ossl
Announced: 2023-12-05
Affects: FreeBSD 14.0
Corrected: 2023-12-03 17:48:09 UTC (stable/14, 14.0-STABLE)
2023-12-05 18:27:34 UTC (releng/14.0, 14.0-RELEASE-p2)
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I. Background
ossl(4) is a kernel module which implements some cryptographic operations
using implementations derived from OpenSSL. It integrated into the FreeBSD
kernel's OpenCrypto Framework (OCF).
II. Problem Description
ossl(4) contains an implementation of AES-GCM for amd64. This implementation
did not properly implement some aspects of the OCF interface. In particular,
ossl(4) AES-GCM sessions were not thread-safe, and did not handle an AAD
buffer outside of the main plaintext/ciphertext buffer. The former bug
affects consumers which dispatch multiple requests in parallel on a single
session, such as ZFS when encrypted datasets are configured. External AAD
buffers are used by some network features such as ktls(4).
III. Impact
On amd64 systems, ossl(4) could give incorrect output for AES-GCM operations
if consumers trigger either of the bugs described above. This could, for
example, result in packet loss, if ossl is used to encrypt/decrypt tunnelled
traffic, or data corruption if ossl is used to encrypt/decrypt filesystem
data.
Users are not affected by default, as ossl.ko is not loaded by default. To
be affected, a system must either be running a custom kernel which contains
ossl(4), or be configured to load ossl.ko via loader.conf(5).
IV. Workaround
Disable the use of ossl(4), either by removing it from loader.conf or the
kernel configuration, and reboot the system. The built-in aesni(4) module
currently implements all of the same operations as ossl, so consumers will
not notice any functional difference.
V. Solution
Upgrade your system to a supported FreeBSD stable or release / security
branch (releng) dated after the correction date. A reboot is required
following the upgrade.
Perform one of the following:
1) To update your system via a binary patch:
Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the amd64 or arm64 platforms,
or the i386 platfrom on FreeBSD 13 and earlier, can be updated via
the freebsd-update(8) utility:
# freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install
# shutdown -r now
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-23:17/ossl.patch
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-23:17/ossl.patch.asc
# gpg --verify ossl.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 as of the corresponding Git commit hash or Subversion
revision number in the following stable and release branches:
Branch/path Hash Revision
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
stable/14/ 118b866d9c39 stable/14-n265898
releng/14.0/ 433fe061fc59 releng/14.0-n265388
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Run the following command to see which files were modified by a
particular commit:
# git show --stat <commit hash>
Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the hash:
<URL:https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=NNNNNN>
To determine the commit count in a working tree (for comparison against
nNNNNNN in the table above), run:
# git rev-list --count --first-parent HEAD
VII. References
<URL:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id'5306>
The latest revision of this advisory is available at
<URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-23:17.ossl.asc>
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