Bug 802946

This was fixed in upstream [1]. I did not tried to backport the patch, but it should be doable I guess.


[1] http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-trunk/repository/revisions/36005

This would be extremely helpful if it was backported to ruby 1.8.7

Created attachment 606606 [details]
Use srand and rand in Ruby 1.8.7 to make a session id

The porting concern is that Ruby 1.8.7 doesn't have a Random class, but the patch against the Ruby trunk <http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-trunk/repository/revisions/36005/diff/ext/openssl/lib/openssl/ssl.rb?format=diff> uses the Random class.

This equivalent, which should work under Ruby 1.8.7, uses srand and rand instead of the Random class. It is inspired by answers from <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/88311/how-best-to-generate-a-random-string-in-ruby>.

A risk here is that the PRNG state changed by srand is global, unlike the PRNG state encapsulated in the Random object used in the patch against Ruby trunk, and this code messes with that global state every time a new SSL session happens. An attacker who knows enough could maybe find out the seeds being used, and do mischief. But if you need to avoid using MD5 so badly, you're probably in FIPS-compliant mode, and so OpenSSL may not be using the same PRNG for cryptography as Ruby is for rand calls. That could mitigate the risk.

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Hi Jared,

Thinking about this once more, I think the most straight forward way will be to replace the MD5 by SHA256, as you proposed in your upstream ticket. This should work for us, since we don't share upstream concerns about older OpenSSL library.


diff --git a/ext/openssl/lib/openssl/ssl-internal.rb b/ext/openssl/lib/openssl/ssl-internal.rb
index 9ef6f92..01dda99 100644
--- a/ext/openssl/lib/openssl/ssl-internal.rb
+++ b/ext/openssl/lib/openssl/ssl-internal.rb
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ module OpenSSL
         @svr = svr
         @ctx = ctx
         unless ctx.session_id_context
-          session_id = OpenSSL::Digest::MD5.hexdigest($0)
+          session_id = OpenSSL::Digest::SHA256.hexdigest($0)[0...32]
           @ctx.session_id_context = session_id
         end
         @start_immediately = true


This would be the patch. Lets see what our FIPS guys think about it.

Yes, this patch looks perfectly acceptable to me.

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1470.html