Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: hci_event: Ignore NULL link key

[joeyli]

Hi Luiz Augusto von Dentz,

First, thanks for your review!

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 11:44:28AM -0700, Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote:
> Hi Chun-Yi,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 9:14 AM Lee, Chun-Yi <joeyli.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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. Base on the paper, attacker can induce the
> > attacked target to generate null link key (zero key) without PIN code.
> >
> > 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]
> >
> > Closes: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-26555 [1]
> > Closes: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9474325/authors#authors [2]
> > Closes: https://github.com/bluekitchen/btstack/blob/master/src/hci.c#L3722 [3]
> 
> Shouldn't the last 2 be using Link: instead?
> 

Sorry for I confused Link: with Closes:. I will change all of them to Link: tag

> > Signed-off-by: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 6 ++++++
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c
> > index 95816a938cea..e81b8d6c13ba 100644
> > --- a/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c
> > +++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c
> > @@ -4684,6 +4684,12 @@ static void hci_link_key_notify_evt(struct hci_dev *hdev, void *data,
> >         bool persistent;
> >         u8 pin_len = 0;
> >
> > +       /* Ignore NULL link key against CVE-2020-26555 */
> > +       if (!memcmp(ev->link_key, ZERO_KEY, HCI_LINK_KEY_SIZE)) {
> > +               BT_DBG("Ignore NULL link key (ZERO KEY) for %pMR", &ev->bdaddr);
> 
> Please use bt_dev_dbg instead.
>

I see! I will use bt_dev_dbg.
 
> > +               return;
> > +       }
> > +
> >         bt_dev_dbg(hdev, "");
> >
> >         hci_dev_lock(hdev);
> > --
> > 2.35.3
> >

Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee