This assertion failure can be hit in production, which causes the
openvpn server process to stop and all clients to be disconnected.
Bug #1270 has been filed for this issue on Trac by another user
who has experienced the issue, and this patch attempts to address it.
Tracing callers, it appears that some callers check ks->authenticated
before calling, but others do not. It may be possible to add the check
for the callers that do not check, but this seems to be a simpler
solution.
To give some background, we hit this assertion failure, with the
following log output:
```
Tue May 19 15:57:05 2020 username/73.135.141.11:1194 PUSH: Received control
message: 'PUSH_REQUEST'
Tue May 19 15:57:05 2020 username/73.135.141.11:1194 SENT CONTROL [username]:
'PUSH_REPLY,redirect-gateway
def1,comp-lzo,persist-key,persist-tun,route-gateway 10.28.47.1,topology
subnet,ping 10,ping-restart 120,ifconfig 10.28.47.38 255.255.255.0,peer-id 89'
(status=1)
Tue May 19 15:57:05 2020 username/73.135.141.11:1194 Assertion failed at
/path/to/openvpn-2.4.7/src/openvpn/ssl.c:1944 (ks->authenticated)
Tue May 19 15:57:05 2020 username/73.135.141.11:1194 Exiting due to fatal error
Tue May 19 15:57:05 2020 username/73.135.141.11:1194 Closing TUN/TAP interface
```
using the following OpenVPN server configuration:
```
port 1194
proto udp
dev-type tun
ca ca.crt
cert server.crt
key server.key
dh dh.pem
topology subnet
push "redirect-gateway def1"
push "comp-lzo"
push "persist-key"
push "persist-tun"
keepalive 10 120
comp-lzo
user nobody
group nobody
persist-key
persist-tun
cd /home/openvpn/server
chroot /var/empty
daemon
verb 3
crl-verify crl.pem
tls-auth ta.key 0
cipher AES-256-CBC
tls-version-min 1.2
tls-cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
ncp-disable
mute-replay-warnings
script-security 3
auth-user-pass-verify "ldap-auth/ldap-auth" via-env
auth-user-pass-optional
```
and the following command line options:
```
--config openvpn.conf --dev tun1 --local 206.131.72.52 \
--log-append openvpn.log --status openvpn-status.log \
--server 10.28.47.0 255.255.255.0
```
The failed assertion is inside the function
`tls_session_generate_data_channel_keys`, which is called 3 other places
in `ssl.c.`:
* `key_method_2_write`: checks for `ks->authenticated` before calling
* `key_method_2_read`: appears to run in client mode but not in server
mode
* `tls_session_update_crypto_params`: runs in server mode and does not
check before calling
That leads me to believe the problem caller is
`tls_session_update_crypto_params`. There.s three callers of
`tls_session_update_crypto_params`:.
* `incoming_push_message` (`push.c`): Probably this caller, since the
server pushes configuration to clients, and the log shows the
assertion failure right after the push reply.
* `multi_process_file_closed` (`multi.c`): Not this caller. NCP is
disabled in config, and async push was not enabled when compiling.
* `do_deferred_options` (`init.c`): Not this caller. The server
configuration doesn't pull.
Changing the assertion to returning false appears to be the simplest
fix. Another approach would be changing callers to check
`ks->authenticated` before calling, either
`tls_session_update_crypto_params` or `incoming_push_message`.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Evans <c...@jeremyevans.net>
---
src/openvpn/ssl.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/openvpn/ssl.c b/src/openvpn/ssl.c
index c2e9a4f3..c8b3a959 100644
--- a/src/openvpn/ssl.c
+++ b/src/openvpn/ssl.c
@@ -1930,7 +1930,10 @@ tls_session_generate_data_channel_keys(struct
tls_session *session)
const struct session_id *server_sid = !session->opt->server ?
&ks->session_id_remote :
&session->session_id;
- ASSERT(ks->authenticated);
+ if (!ks->authenticated) {
+ msg(D_TLS_ERRORS, "TLS Error: key_state not authenticated");
+ goto cleanup;
+ }
ks->crypto_options.flags = session->opt->crypto_flags;
if (!generate_key_expansion(&ks->crypto_options.key_ctx_bi,
--
2.26.2
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