bpo-37463: match_hostname requires quad-dotted IPv4 (GH-14499)

ssl.match_hostname() no longer accepts IPv4 addresses with additional text
after the address and only quad-dotted notation without trailing
whitespaces. Some inet_aton() implementations ignore whitespace and all data
after whitespace, e.g. '127.0.0.1 whatever'.

Short notations like '127.1' for '127.0.0.1' were already filtered out.

The bug was initially found by Dominik Czarnota and reported by Paul Kehrer.
Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>



https://bugs.python.org/issue37463

Lib/ssl.py

@@ -327,12 +327,22 @@ def _inet_paton(ipname):
     Supports IPv4 addresses on all platforms and IPv6 on platforms with IPv6
     support.
     """
-    # inet_aton() also accepts strings like '1'
-    if ipname.count('.') == 3:
+    # inet_aton() also accepts strings like '1', '127.1', some also trailing
+    # data like '127.0.0.1 whatever'.
     try:
-            return _socket.inet_aton(ipname)
+        addr = _socket.inet_aton(ipname)
     except OSError:
+        # not an IPv4 address
         pass
+    else:
+        if _socket.inet_ntoa(addr) == ipname:
+            # only accept injective ipnames
+            return addr
+        else:
+            # refuse for short IPv4 notation and additional trailing data
+            raise ValueError(
+                "{!r} is not a quad-dotted IPv4 address.".format(ipname)
+            )
 
     try:
         return _socket.inet_pton(_socket.AF_INET6, ipname)
@@ -346,14 +356,15 @@ def _inet_paton(ipname):
     raise ValueError("{!r} is not an IPv4 address.".format(ipname))
 
 
-def _ipaddress_match(ipname, host_ip):
+def _ipaddress_match(cert_ipaddress, host_ip):
     """Exact matching of IP addresses.
 
     RFC 6125 explicitly doesn't define an algorithm for this
     (section 1.7.2 - "Out of Scope").
     """
-    # OpenSSL may add a trailing newline to a subjectAltName's IP address
-    ip = _inet_paton(ipname.rstrip())
+    # OpenSSL may add a trailing newline to a subjectAltName's IP address,
+    # commonly woth IPv6 addresses. Strip off trailing \n.
+    ip = _inet_paton(cert_ipaddress.rstrip())
     return ip == host_ip
 
 

Lib/test/test_ssl.py

@@ -669,9 +669,14 @@ class BasicSocketTests(unittest.TestCase):
         cert = {'subject': ((('commonName', 'example.com'),),),
                 'subjectAltName': (('DNS', 'example.com'),
                                    ('IP Address', '10.11.12.13'),
-                                   ('IP Address', '14.15.16.17'))}
+                                   ('IP Address', '14.15.16.17'),
+                                   ('IP Address', '127.0.0.1'))}
         ok(cert, '10.11.12.13')
         ok(cert, '14.15.16.17')
+        # socket.inet_ntoa(socket.inet_aton('127.1')) == '127.0.0.1'
+        fail(cert, '127.1')
+        fail(cert, '14.15.16.17 ')
+        fail(cert, '14.15.16.17 extra data')
         fail(cert, '14.15.16.18')
         fail(cert, 'example.net')
 
@@ -684,6 +689,8 @@ class BasicSocketTests(unittest.TestCase):
                         ('IP Address', '2003:0:0:0:0:0:0:BABA\n'))}
             ok(cert, '2001::cafe')
             ok(cert, '2003::baba')
+            fail(cert, '2003::baba ')
+            fail(cert, '2003::baba extra data')
             fail(cert, '2003::bebe')
             fail(cert, 'example.net')
 

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-07-01-08-46-14.bpo-37463.1CHwjE.rst

+ssl.match_hostname() no longer accepts IPv4 addresses with additional text
+after the address and only quad-dotted notation without trailing
+whitespaces. Some inet_aton() implementations ignore whitespace and all data
+after whitespace, e.g. '127.0.0.1 whatever'.