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Mail: connections with wrong ALPN protocols are now rejected.
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This is a recommended behavior by RFC 7301 and is useful
for mitigation of protocol confusion attacks [1].

For POP3 and IMAP protocols IANA-assigned ALPN IDs are used [2].
For the SMTP protocol "smtp" is used.

[1] https://alpaca-attack.com/
[2] https://www.iana.org/assignments/tls-extensiontype-values/

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vlhomutov committed Oct 20, 2021
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions src/mail/ngx_mail.h
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Expand Up @@ -324,6 +324,7 @@ typedef ngx_int_t (*ngx_mail_parse_command_pt)(ngx_mail_session_t *s);

struct ngx_mail_protocol_s {
ngx_str_t name;
ngx_str_t alpn;
in_port_t port[4];
ngx_uint_t type;

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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions src/mail/ngx_mail_imap_module.c
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Expand Up @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ static ngx_str_t ngx_mail_imap_auth_methods_names[] = {

static ngx_mail_protocol_t ngx_mail_imap_protocol = {
ngx_string("imap"),
ngx_string("\x04imap"),
{ 143, 993, 0, 0 },
NGX_MAIL_IMAP_PROTOCOL,

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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions src/mail/ngx_mail_pop3_module.c
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Expand Up @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ static ngx_str_t ngx_mail_pop3_auth_methods_names[] = {

static ngx_mail_protocol_t ngx_mail_pop3_protocol = {
ngx_string("pop3"),
ngx_string("\x04pop3"),
{ 110, 995, 0, 0 },
NGX_MAIL_POP3_PROTOCOL,

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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions src/mail/ngx_mail_smtp_module.c
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Expand Up @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ static ngx_str_t ngx_mail_smtp_auth_methods_names[] = {

static ngx_mail_protocol_t ngx_mail_smtp_protocol = {
ngx_string("smtp"),
ngx_string("\x04smtp"),
{ 25, 465, 587, 0 },
NGX_MAIL_SMTP_PROTOCOL,

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58 changes: 58 additions & 0 deletions src/mail/ngx_mail_ssl_module.c
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#define NGX_DEFAULT_ECDH_CURVE "auto"


#ifdef TLSEXT_TYPE_application_layer_protocol_negotiation
static int ngx_mail_ssl_alpn_select(ngx_ssl_conn_t *ssl_conn,
const unsigned char **out, unsigned char *outlen,
const unsigned char *in, unsigned int inlen, void *arg);
#endif

static void *ngx_mail_ssl_create_conf(ngx_conf_t *cf);
static char *ngx_mail_ssl_merge_conf(ngx_conf_t *cf, void *parent, void *child);

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static ngx_str_t ngx_mail_ssl_sess_id_ctx = ngx_string("MAIL");


#ifdef TLSEXT_TYPE_application_layer_protocol_negotiation

static int
ngx_mail_ssl_alpn_select(ngx_ssl_conn_t *ssl_conn, const unsigned char **out,
unsigned char *outlen, const unsigned char *in, unsigned int inlen,
void *arg)
{
unsigned int srvlen;
unsigned char *srv;
ngx_connection_t *c;
ngx_mail_session_t *s;
ngx_mail_core_srv_conf_t *cscf;
#if (NGX_DEBUG)
unsigned int i;
#endif

c = ngx_ssl_get_connection(ssl_conn);
s = c->data;

#if (NGX_DEBUG)
for (i = 0; i < inlen; i += in[i] + 1) {
ngx_log_debug2(NGX_LOG_DEBUG_MAIL, c->log, 0,
"SSL ALPN supported by client: %*s",
(size_t) in[i], &in[i + 1]);
}
#endif

cscf = ngx_mail_get_module_srv_conf(s, ngx_mail_core_module);

srv = cscf->protocol->alpn.data;
srvlen = cscf->protocol->alpn.len;

if (SSL_select_next_proto((unsigned char **) out, outlen, srv, srvlen,
in, inlen)
!= OPENSSL_NPN_NEGOTIATED)
{
return SSL_TLSEXT_ERR_ALERT_FATAL;
}

ngx_log_debug2(NGX_LOG_DEBUG_MAIL, c->log, 0,
"SSL ALPN selected: %*s", (size_t) *outlen, *out);

return SSL_TLSEXT_ERR_OK;
}

#endif


static void *
ngx_mail_ssl_create_conf(ngx_conf_t *cf)
{
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cln->handler = ngx_ssl_cleanup_ctx;
cln->data = &conf->ssl;

#ifdef TLSEXT_TYPE_application_layer_protocol_negotiation
SSL_CTX_set_alpn_select_cb(conf->ssl.ctx, ngx_mail_ssl_alpn_select, NULL);
#endif

if (ngx_ssl_ciphers(cf, &conf->ssl, &conf->ciphers,
conf->prefer_server_ciphers)
!= NGX_OK)
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