Disallow SSL session tickets.

tglsfdc · tglsfdc · commit dda04b9dd1bd · 2017-08-04T11:07:10.000-04:00
We don't actually support session tickets, since we do not create an SSL session identifier. But it seems that OpenSSL will issue a session ticket on-demand anyway, which will then fail when used. This results in reconnection failures when using ticket-aware client-side SSL libraries (such as the Npgsql .NET driver), as reported by Shay Rojansky. To fix, just tell OpenSSL not to issue tickets. At some point in the far future, we might consider enabling tickets instead. But the security implications of that aren't entirely clear; and besides it would have little benefit except for very short-lived database connections, which is Something We're Bad At anyhow. It would take a lot of other work to get to a point where that would really be an exciting thing to do. While at it, also tell OpenSSL not to use a session cache. This doesn't really do anything, since a backend would never populate the cache anyway, but it might gain some micro-efficiencies and/or reduce security exposures. Patch by me, per discussion with Heikki Linnakangas and Shay Rojansky. Back-patch to all supported versions. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADT4RqBU8N-csyZuzaook-c795dt22Zcwg1aHWB6tfVdAkodZA@mail.gmail.com
diff --git a/src/backend/libpq/be-secure.c b/src/backend/libpq/be-secure.c
@@ -935,6 +935,14 @@ initialize_SSL(void)
 	SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh_callback(SSL_context, tmp_dh_cb);
 	SSL_CTX_set_options(SSL_context, SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE | SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
 
+	/* disallow SSL session tickets */
+#ifdef SSL_OP_NO_TICKET			/* added in openssl 0.9.8f */
+	SSL_CTX_set_options(SSL_context, SSL_OP_NO_TICKET);
+#endif
+
+	/* disallow SSL session caching, too */
+	SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode(SSL_context, SSL_SESS_CACHE_OFF);
+
 	/* set up the allowed cipher list */
 	if (SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list(SSL_context, SSLCipherSuites) != 1)
 		elog(FATAL, "could not set the cipher list (no valid ciphers available)");
