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Introduce extra delay before closing unauthenticated sessions To make it harder for attackers, introduce a delay to keep an unauthenticated session open a bit longer, thus blocking a connection slot until after the delay. Without this, while there is a limit on the amount of attempts an attacker can make at the same time (MAX_UNAUTH_PER_IP), the time taken by dropbear to handle one attempt is still short and thus for each of the allowed parallel attempts many attempts can be chained one after the other. The attempt rate is then: "MAX_UNAUTH_PER_IP / <process time of one attempt>". With the delay, this rate becomes: "MAX_UNAUTH_PER_IP / UNAUTH_CLOSE_DELAY".
author Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
date Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:53:04 +0100
parents 228b086794b7
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/*
 * Dropbear - a SSH2 server
 * 
 * Copyright (c) 2002,2003 Matt Johnston
 * All rights reserved.
 * 
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 * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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 * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 * 
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 * 
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 * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
 * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
 * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
 * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
 * SOFTWARE. */

/* Validates a user password */

#include "includes.h"
#include "session.h"
#include "buffer.h"
#include "dbutil.h"
#include "auth.h"
#include "runopts.h"

#if DROPBEAR_SVR_PASSWORD_AUTH

/* not constant time when strings are differing lengths. 
 string content isn't leaked, and crypt hashes are predictable length. */
static int constant_time_strcmp(const char* a, const char* b) {
	size_t la = strlen(a);
	size_t lb = strlen(b);

	if (la != lb) {
		return 1;
	}

	return constant_time_memcmp(a, b, la);
}

/* Process a password auth request, sending success or failure messages as
 * appropriate */
void svr_auth_password(int valid_user) {
	
	char * passwdcrypt = NULL; /* the crypt from /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow */
	char * testcrypt = NULL; /* crypt generated from the user's password sent */
	char * password = NULL;
	unsigned int passwordlen;
	unsigned int changepw;

	/* check if client wants to change password */
	changepw = buf_getbool(ses.payload);
	if (changepw) {
		/* not implemented by this server */
		send_msg_userauth_failure(0, 1);
		return;
	}

	password = buf_getstring(ses.payload, &passwordlen);
	if (valid_user && passwordlen <= DROPBEAR_MAX_PASSWORD_LEN) {
		/* the first bytes of passwdcrypt are the salt */
		passwdcrypt = ses.authstate.pw_passwd;
		testcrypt = crypt(password, passwdcrypt);
	}
	m_burn(password, passwordlen);
	m_free(password);

	/* After we have got the payload contents we can exit if the username
	is invalid. Invalid users have already been logged. */
	if (!valid_user) {
		send_msg_userauth_failure(0, 1);
		return;
	}

	if (passwordlen > DROPBEAR_MAX_PASSWORD_LEN) {
		dropbear_log(LOG_WARNING,
				"Too-long password attempt for '%s' from %s",
				ses.authstate.pw_name,
				svr_ses.addrstring);
		send_msg_userauth_failure(0, 1);
		return;
	}

	if (testcrypt == NULL) {
		/* crypt() with an invalid salt like "!!" */
		dropbear_log(LOG_WARNING, "User account '%s' is locked",
				ses.authstate.pw_name);
		send_msg_userauth_failure(0, 1);
		return;
	}

	/* check for empty password */
	if (passwdcrypt[0] == '\0') {
		dropbear_log(LOG_WARNING, "User '%s' has blank password, rejected",
				ses.authstate.pw_name);
		send_msg_userauth_failure(0, 1);
		return;
	}

	if (constant_time_strcmp(testcrypt, passwdcrypt) == 0) {
		/* successful authentication */
		dropbear_log(LOG_NOTICE, 
				"Password auth succeeded for '%s' from %s",
				ses.authstate.pw_name,
				svr_ses.addrstring);
		send_msg_userauth_success();
	} else {
		dropbear_log(LOG_WARNING,
				"Bad password attempt for '%s' from %s",
				ses.authstate.pw_name,
				svr_ses.addrstring);
		send_msg_userauth_failure(0, 1);
	}
}

#endif