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  2. JDK-8014618

Need to strip leading zeros in TlsPremasterSecret of DHKeyAgreement

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    • 7.0
    • 7u6
    • b94
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        FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
        java version " 1.7.0_17 "
        Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_17-b02)
        Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode, sharing)

        ADDITIONAL OS VERSION INFORMATION :
        Tested on Windows 7 (Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]), but occurs in e..g OpenJDK 7 as well.

        A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
        When performing Diffie-Hellman key agreement for SSL/TLS, the TLS specification (RFC 5246) says that " Leading bytes of Z that contain all zero bits are stripped before it is used as the pre_master_secret. "

        However, com.sun.crypto.provider.DHKeyAgreement.java does not strip leading zero bytes. This causes approximately 1 out 256 SSL/TLS handshakes with DH/DHE cipher suites to fail (when the leading byte happens, by chance, to be zero).


        STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
        1. Start a simple JSSE socket server with -Djavax.net.debug=all.

        2. Connect to the server with e.g. OpenSSL command line tool, ensuring that DHE cipher suite gets selected (e.g. " openssl s_client -cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA -connect 192.168.81.1:9999 " ) repeatedly. Other SSL clients can be used -- this is not an OpenSSL bug (see below).

        3. Repeat the connection. After a couple of hundred successful connections, the connection will fail with handshake_failure alert.

        4. Examine the JSSE debug logs produced by the server: the failed connection will have a PreMaster secret that begins with zero byte
        (while all other connections have non-zero byte here). For example:

        SESSION KEYGEN:
        PreMaster Secret:
        0000: 00 70 C5 7E 91 38 C8 DE ED 75 3D 76 8A B5 44 69 .p...8...u=v..Di
        0010: E7 32 1C EE 80 77 50 C7 A9 51 24 2E E3 15 11 30 .2...wP..Q$....0
        0020: 9D F6 9F BC 9D EB 5C 18 F7 A4 19 ED 1A AC 2E 0C ......\.........
        0030: E3 18 C5 11 B1 80 07 7D B1 C6 70 A8 D7 EB CF DD ..........p.....
        0040: 2D B5 1D BC 01 3E 28 2A 2B 5B 38 8F EB 20 F2 A2 -....>(*+[8.. ..
        0050: 00 07 47 F7 87 B8 99 CB EF B4 13 04 C8 8B 82 FB ..G.............


        EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
        EXPECTED -
        Expected result is that every connection succeed.
        ACTUAL -
        Roughly one out of 256 connections fail.

        REPRODUCIBILITY :
        This bug can be reproduced always.

        ---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
        Java server:

        import javax.net.ssl.SSLServerSocket;
        import javax.net.ssl.SSLServerSocketFactory;
        import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket;

        public class TestServer {
            public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
        SSLServerSocketFactory ssf = (SSLServerSocketFactory) SSLServerSocketFactory.getDefault();
        SSLServerSocket ss = (SSLServerSocket) ssf.createServerSocket(9999);
        System.out.println( " Listening on port 9999 " );
        for (String cs : ss.getEnabledCipherSuites()) {
            System.out.println(cs);
        }
        while (true) {
            SSLSocket s = (SSLSocket) ss.accept();
            System.out.println( " Connected with " +s.getSession().getCipherSuite());
            s.close();
        }
            }
        }

        Run as as follows:

        keytool -storepass " password " -keypass " password " -genkey -keyalg RSA -keystore test_keystore.jks -dname CN=test
        javac TestServer.java
        java -Djavax.net.debug=all -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=./test_keystore.jks -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=password TestServer

        OpenSSL client:

        set -e
        while true; do
          openssl s_client -cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA -connect 127.0.0.1:9999 -quiet -no_ign_eof < /dev/null
        done



        ---------- END SOURCE ----------

        CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
        Disable Diffie-Hellman cipher suites.

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