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From 0ff4a42e31e4ef8d190e3be866315a774b590745 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingela Anderton Andin <ingela@erlang.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:12:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ssl: Increase security with safer default

The interoperability option to fallback to insecure renegotiation
now has to be explicitly turned on.
---
 lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml          |  5 +++--
 lib/ssl/src/ssl.erl              |  2 +-
 lib/ssl/test/ssl_basic_SUITE.erl | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml
index 4f72114ae9..7267083e32 100644
--- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml
+++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl.xml
@@ -264,8 +264,9 @@
       <item><p>Specifies if to reject renegotiation attempt that does
       not live up to 
       <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5746.txt">RFC 5746</url>. 
-      By default <c>secure_renegotiate</c> is set to <c>false</c>, 
-      that is, secure renegotiation is used if possible,
+      By default <c>secure_renegotiate</c> is set to <c>true</c>, 
+      that is, secure renegotiation is enforced. If set to <c>false</c> secure renegotiation
+      will still be used if possible,
       but it falls back to insecure renegotiation if the peer
       does not support 
       <url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5746.txt">RFC 5746</url>.</p>
diff --git a/lib/ssl/src/ssl.erl b/lib/ssl/src/ssl.erl
index 0b035d31be..82f62b51b9 100644
--- a/lib/ssl/src/ssl.erl
+++ b/lib/ssl/src/ssl.erl
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ handle_options(Opts0, Role, Host) ->
 		    %% Server side option
 		    reuse_session = handle_option(reuse_session, Opts, ReuseSessionFun),
 		    reuse_sessions = handle_option(reuse_sessions, Opts, true),
-		    secure_renegotiate = handle_option(secure_renegotiate, Opts, false),
+		    secure_renegotiate = handle_option(secure_renegotiate, Opts, true),
 		    client_renegotiation = handle_option(client_renegotiation, Opts, 
 							 default_option_role(server, true, Role), 
 							 server, Role),
diff --git a/lib/ssl/test/ssl_basic_SUITE.erl b/lib/ssl/test/ssl_basic_SUITE.erl
index 2781203557..05979d3cfd 100644
--- a/lib/ssl/test/ssl_basic_SUITE.erl
+++ b/lib/ssl/test/ssl_basic_SUITE.erl
@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ renegotiate_tests() ->
     [client_renegotiate,
      server_renegotiate,
      client_secure_renegotiate,
+     client_secure_renegotiate_fallback,
      client_renegotiate_reused_session,
      server_renegotiate_reused_session,
      client_no_wrap_sequence_number,
@@ -2898,6 +2899,36 @@ client_secure_renegotiate(Config) when is_list(Config) ->
     ssl_test_lib:close(Server),
     ssl_test_lib:close(Client).
 
+%%--------------------------------------------------------------------
+client_secure_renegotiate_fallback() ->
+    [{doc,"Test that we can set secure_renegotiate to false that is "
+      "fallback option, we however do not have a insecure server to test against!"}].
+client_secure_renegotiate_fallback(Config) when is_list(Config) ->
+    ServerOpts = ssl_test_lib:ssl_options(server_opts, Config),
+    ClientOpts = ssl_test_lib:ssl_options(client_opts, Config),
+
+    {ClientNode, ServerNode, Hostname} = ssl_test_lib:run_where(Config),
+
+    Data = "From erlang to erlang",
+
+    Server =
+	ssl_test_lib:start_server([{node, ServerNode}, {port, 0},
+				   {from, self()},
+				   {mfa, {?MODULE, erlang_ssl_receive, [Data]}},
+				   {options, [{secure_renegotiate, false} | ServerOpts]}]),
+    Port = ssl_test_lib:inet_port(Server),
+
+    Client = ssl_test_lib:start_client([{node, ClientNode}, {port, Port},
+					{host, Hostname},
+					{from, self()},
+					{mfa, {?MODULE,
+					       renegotiate, [Data]}},
+					{options, [{reuse_sessions, false},
+						   {secure_renegotiate, false}| ClientOpts]}]),
+    
+    ssl_test_lib:check_result(Client, ok, Server, ok),
+    ssl_test_lib:close(Server),
+    ssl_test_lib:close(Client).
 
 %%--------------------------------------------------------------------
 server_renegotiate() ->
-- 
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