git: 6c9bcecfb296 - stable/13 - net80211: fail for unicast traffic without unicast key

From: Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 12:09:07 UTC
The branch stable/13 has been updated by bz:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=6c9bcecfb296b96a383012e02bc9582260588339

commit 6c9bcecfb296b96a383012e02bc9582260588339
Author:     domienschepers <schepers.d@northeastern.edu>
AuthorDate: 2022-11-10 00:00:00 +0000
Commit:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2023-06-26 12:02:00 +0000

    net80211: fail for unicast traffic without unicast key
    
    Falling back to the multicast key may cause unicast traffic to leak.
    Instead fail when no key is found.
    
    For more information see the 'Framing Frames: Bypassing Wi-Fi Encryption
    by Manipulating Transmit Queues' paper.
    
    [ I updated the commit message to reference the paper and the code
    comment to record historic behaviour as discussed in private email. ]
    
    (cherry picked from commit 61605e0ae5d8f34b89b8e71e393f3006f511e86a)
---
 sys/net80211/ieee80211_crypto.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sys/net80211/ieee80211_crypto.c b/sys/net80211/ieee80211_crypto.c
index 59760d1e7d9c..f5941392465b 100644
--- a/sys/net80211/ieee80211_crypto.c
+++ b/sys/net80211/ieee80211_crypto.c
@@ -560,13 +560,17 @@ ieee80211_crypto_get_txkey(struct ieee80211_node *ni, struct mbuf *m)
 
 	/*
 	 * Multicast traffic always uses the multicast key.
-	 * Otherwise if a unicast key is set we use that and
-	 * it is always key index 0.  When no unicast key is
-	 * set we fall back to the default transmit key.
+	 *
+	 * Historically we would fall back to the default
+	 * transmit key if there was no unicast key.  This
+	 * behaviour was documented up to IEEE Std 802.11-2016,
+	 * 12.9.2.2 Per-MSDU/Per-A-MSDU Tx pseudocode, in the
+	 * 'else' case but is no longer in later versions of
+	 * the standard.  Additionally falling back to the
+	 * group key for unicast was a security risk.
 	 */
 	wh = mtod(m, struct ieee80211_frame *);
-	if (IEEE80211_IS_MULTICAST(wh->i_addr1) ||
-	    IEEE80211_KEY_UNDEFINED(&ni->ni_ucastkey)) {
+	if (IEEE80211_IS_MULTICAST(wh->i_addr1)) {
 		if (vap->iv_def_txkey == IEEE80211_KEYIX_NONE) {
 			IEEE80211_NOTE_MAC(vap, IEEE80211_MSG_CRYPTO,
 			    wh->i_addr1,
@@ -578,6 +582,8 @@ ieee80211_crypto_get_txkey(struct ieee80211_node *ni, struct mbuf *m)
 		return &vap->iv_nw_keys[vap->iv_def_txkey];
 	}
 
+	if (IEEE80211_KEY_UNDEFINED(&ni->ni_ucastkey))
+		return NULL;
 	return &ni->ni_ucastkey;
 }