Security/tcptls: MitM Attack potential from certificate with NULL byte in CN.

When registering to a SIP server with TLS, Asterisk will accept CA signed
certificates with a common name that was signed for a domain other than the
one requested if it contains a null character in the common name portion of
the cert. This patch fixes that by checking that the common name length
matches the the length of the content we actually read from the common name
segment. Some certificate authorities automatically sign CA requests when
the requesting CN isn't already taken, so an attacker could potentially
register a CN with something like www.google.com\x00www.secretlyevil.net
and have their certificate signed and Asterisk would accept that certificate
as though it had been for www.google.com - this is a security fix and is
noted in AST-2015-003.

ASTERISK-24847 #close
Reported by: Maciej Szmigiero
Patches:
 asterisk-null-in-cn.patch submitted by mhej (license 6085)
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Merged revisions 434337 from http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/branches/1.8

git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/11@434338 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3

diff --git a/main/tcptls.c b/main/tcptls.c
index a1d1ef72cfc03a76faaab321b18858ffb4194abb..9d9aefc0ba02c0fab06a9f3a3c899cd0a01c03a8 100644 (file)
--- a/main/tcptls.c
+++ b/main/tcptls.c
@@ -639,9 +639,15 @@ static void *handle_tcptls_connection(void *data)
                                                        break;
                                                }
                                                str = X509_NAME_ENTRY_get_data(X509_NAME_get_entry(name, pos));
-                                               ASN1_STRING_to_UTF8(&str2, str);
+                                               ret = ASN1_STRING_to_UTF8(&str2, str);
+                                               if (ret < 0) {
+                                                       continue;
+                                               }
+
                                                if (str2) {
-                                                       if (!strcasecmp(tcptls_session->parent->hostname, (char *) str2)) {
+                                                       if (strlen((char *) str2) != ret) {
+                                                               ast_log(LOG_WARNING, "Invalid certificate common name length (contains NULL bytes?)\n");
+                                                       } else if (!strcasecmp(tcptls_session->parent->hostname, (char *) str2)) {
                                                                found = 1;
                                                        }
                                                        ast_debug(3, "SSL Common Name compare s1='%s' s2='%s'\n", tcptls_session->parent->hostname, str2);