This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Bluetooth: hci_event: Ignore NULL link key
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
bluetooth-hci_event-ignore-null-link-key.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 33155c4aae5260475def6f7438e4e35564f4f3ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 16:59:31 +0800
Subject: Bluetooth: hci_event: Ignore NULL link key
From: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
commit 33155c4aae5260475def6f7438e4e35564f4f3ba upstream.
This change is used to relieve CVE-2020-26555. The description of the
CVE:
Bluetooth legacy BR/EDR PIN code pairing in Bluetooth Core Specification
1.0B through 5.2 may permit an unauthenticated nearby device to spoof
the BD_ADDR of the peer device to complete pairing without knowledge
of the PIN. [1]
The detail of this attack is in IEEE paper:
BlueMirror: Reflections on Bluetooth Pairing and Provisioning Protocols
[2]
It's a reflection attack. The paper mentioned that attacker can induce
the attacked target to generate null link key (zero key) without PIN
code. In BR/EDR, the key generation is actually handled in the controller
which is below HCI.
Thus, we can ignore null link key in the handler of "Link Key Notification
event" to relieve the attack. A similar implementation also shows in
btstack project. [3]
v3: Drop the connection when null link key be detected.
v2:
- Used Link: tag instead of Closes:
- Used bt_dev_dbg instead of BT_DBG
- Added Fixes: tag
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 55ed8ca10f35 ("Bluetooth: Implement link key handling for the management interface")
Link: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-26555 [1]
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9474325/authors#authors [2]
Link: https://github.com/bluekitchen/btstack/blob/master/src/hci.c#L3722 [3]
Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
--- a/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c
@@ -3494,6 +3494,15 @@ static void hci_link_key_notify_evt(stru
if (!conn)
goto unlock;
+ /* Ignore NULL link key against CVE-2020-26555 */
+ if (!memcmp(ev->link_key, ZERO_KEY, HCI_LINK_KEY_SIZE)) {
+ bt_dev_dbg(hdev, "Ignore NULL link key (ZERO KEY) for %pMR",
+ &ev->bdaddr);
+ hci_disconnect(conn, HCI_ERROR_AUTH_FAILURE);
+ hci_conn_drop(conn);
+ goto unlock;
+ }
+
hci_conn_hold(conn);
conn->disc_timeout = HCI_DISCONN_TIMEOUT;
hci_conn_drop(conn);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jlee@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/bluetooth-hci_event-ignore-null-link-key.patch
queue-4.14/bluetooth-reject-connection-with-the-device-which-has-same-bd_addr.patch
