summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Documentation/security
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorNikolaus Voss <nikolaus.voss@haag-streit.com>2022-10-19 19:38:20 +0300
committerMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>2022-10-19 20:01:23 +0300
commit5adedd42245af0860ebda8fe0949f24f5204c1b1 (patch)
tree2ebc8e5661f1465ceca408af9e1e7631e2137360 /Documentation/security
parent9abf2313adc1ca1b6180c508c25f22f9395cc780 (diff)
downloadlinux-5adedd42245af0860ebda8fe0949f24f5204c1b1.tar.xz
KEYS: encrypted: fix key instantiation with user-provided data
Commit cd3bc044af48 ("KEYS: encrypted: Instantiate key with user-provided decrypted data") added key instantiation with user provided decrypted data. The user data is hex-ascii-encoded but was just memcpy'ed to the binary buffer. Fix this to use hex2bin instead. Old keys created from user provided decrypted data saved with "keyctl pipe" are still valid, however if the key is recreated from decrypted data the old key must be converted to the correct format. This can be done with a small shell script, e.g.: BROKENKEY=abcdefABCDEF1234567890aaaaaaaaaa NEWKEY=$(echo -ne $BROKENKEY | xxd -p -c32) keyctl add user masterkey "$(cat masterkey.bin)" @u keyctl add encrypted testkey "new user:masterkey 32 $NEWKEY" @u However, NEWKEY is still broken: If for BROKENKEY 32 bytes were specified, a brute force attacker knowing the key properties would only need to try at most 2^(16*8) keys, as if the key was only 16 bytes long. The security issue is a result of the combination of limiting the input range to hex-ascii and using memcpy() instead of hex2bin(). It could have been fixed either by allowing binary input or using hex2bin() (and doubling the ascii input key length). This patch implements the latter. The corresponding test for the Linux Test Project ltp has also been fixed (see link below). Fixes: cd3bc044af48 ("KEYS: encrypted: Instantiate key with user-provided decrypted data") Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/ltp/20221006081709.92303897@mail.steuer-voss.de/ Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nikolaus Voss <nikolaus.voss@haag-streit.com> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/security')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst b/Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst
index 0bfb4c339748..9bc9db8ec651 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst
+++ b/Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst
@@ -350,7 +350,8 @@ Load an encrypted key "evm" from saved blob::
Instantiate an encrypted key "evm" using user-provided decrypted data::
- $ keyctl add encrypted evm "new default user:kmk 32 `cat evm_decrypted_data.blob`" @u
+ $ evmkey=$(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=32 | xxd -c32 -p)
+ $ keyctl add encrypted evm "new default user:kmk 32 $evmkey" @u
794890253
$ keyctl print 794890253