From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | pgsql: libpq: reject extraneous data after SSL or GSS encryption handsh |
Date: | 2021-11-08 16:15:32 |
Message-ID: | E1mk7Iy-0000GN-JD@gemulon.postgresql.org |
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libpq: reject extraneous data after SSL or GSS encryption handshake.
libpq collects up to a bufferload of data whenever it reads data from
the socket. When SSL or GSS encryption is requested during startup,
any additional data received with the server's yes-or-no reply
remained in the buffer, and would be treated as already-decrypted data
once the encryption handshake completed. Thus, a man-in-the-middle
with the ability to inject data into the TCP connection could stuff
some cleartext data into the start of a supposedly encryption-protected
database session.
This could probably be abused to inject faked responses to the
client's first few queries, although other details of libpq's behavior
make that harder than it sounds. A different line of attack is to
exfiltrate the client's password, or other sensitive data that might
be sent early in the session. That has been shown to be possible with
a server vulnerable to CVE-2021-23214.
To fix, throw a protocol-violation error if the internal buffer
is not empty after the encryption handshake.
Our thanks to Jacob Champion for reporting this problem.
Security: CVE-2021-23222
Branch
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REL_13_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/844b3169204c28cd086c1b4fae4a2cbdd0540640
Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 54 insertions(+)
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