[openssl-dev] Fuzzer Patch(es)

Benjamin Kaduk bkaduk at akamai.com
Fri Aug 26 16:33:52 UTC 2016


On 08/25/2016 04:33 PM, Tom Ritter wrote:
> NCC Group has prepared (or begun preparing) a patch that integrates
> fuzzing of OpenSSL. 

Exciting stuff, most of which I will ignore for now and ask a targeted
question.

> - Because ossltest cooks MD5 to output a constant value, OpenSSL's RNG
> becomes constant.

Is it specifically MD5 and not SHA1?  That would be worrisome, as I
thought rand_lcl.h would be setting up for USE_SHA1_RAND by default, not
md5.

-Ben

> This causes an error in ssl/ssl_sess.c:generate_session_id() because
> it always generates a colliding Session ID. This breaks renegotiation
> in the test harness. I haven't thought of an elegant way to resolve this.
>

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