Disallow SSL renegotiation
SSL renegotiation is already disabled as of 48d23c72, however this does
not prevent the server to comply with a client willing to use
renegotiation. In the last couple of years, renegotiation had its set
of security issues and flaws (like the recent CVE-2021-3449), and it
could be possible to crash the backend with a client attempting
renegotiation.
This commit takes one extra step by disabling renegotiation in the
backend in the same way as SSL compression (f9264d15) or tickets
(97d3a0b0). OpenSSL 1.1.0h has added an option named
SSL_OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION able to achieve that. In older versions
there is an option called SSL3_FLAGS_NO_RENEGOTIATE_CIPHERS that
was undocumented, and could be set within the SSL object created when
the TLS connection opens, but I have decided not to use it, as it feels
trickier to rely on, and it is not official. Note that this option is
not usable in OpenSSL < 1.1.0h as the internal contents of the *SSL
object are hidden to applications.
SSL renegotiation concerns protocols up to TLSv1.2.
Per original report from Robert Haas, with a patch based on a suggestion
by Andres Freund.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YKZBXx7RhU74FlTE@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Branch
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REL_12_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3f8072be8a71b5bd3dc838a4ba03ccdaff2d975e
Modified Files
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src/backend/libpq/be-secure-openssl.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)