[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #3712] TLS Renegotiation with Java is broken

[Hubert Kario]

On Friday 25 September 2015 11:40:27 Matt Caswell wrote:
> On 25/09/15 11:25, Hubert Kario via RT wrote:
> > On Friday 25 September 2015 10:47:42 Matt Caswell wrote:
> >> However, I have some concerns with the wording of the RFC. It seems
> >> to place no limits whatsoever on when it is valid to receive app
> >> data in the handshake. By the wording in the RFC it would be valid
> >> for app data to be received *after* the ChangeCipherSpec has been
> >> received but *before* the Finished has been processed. This seems
> >> dangerous to me because it is not until the Finished is processed
> >> that we verify the handshake data MAC - and yet we could already
> >> have acted upon app data received. I assume the intent was to
> >> allow the interleaved app data only up until the point that the
> >> CCS is received. I have attached a patch for 1.0.2 that implements
> >> that logic.
> > 
> > yes, I think the only place in which the handshake protocol and
> > application data _can't_ be interleaved is between the CCS and
> > Finished.
> It would be nice to have a test for that wouldn't it ;-)

yeah, but it will be hard to do, you know, with it requiring an TLS 
implementation to misbehave ;)

I'll make one as soon as I'll finish the test cases for record layer 
fragmentation of initial Client Hello (there are few bugs there too)

-- 
Regards,
Hubert Kario
Quality Engineer, QE BaseOS Security team
Web: www.cz.redhat.com
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 99/71, 612 45, Brno, Czech Republic
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