Subject: [TLS] [Errata Held for Document Update] RFC5246 (4007)

From: RFC Errata System <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:47:18 -0700 (PDT)

The following errata report has been held for document update 
for RFC5246, "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2". 

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You may review the report below and at:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=5246&eid=4007

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Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Technical

Reported by: KIKUCHI Masashi <[email-masked]>
Date Reported: 2014-06-06
Held by: Stephen Farrell (IESG)

Section: 7.3.

Original Text
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Note: To help avoid pipeline stalls, ChangeCipherSpec is an
   independent TLS protocol content type, and is not actually a TLS
   handshake message.

Corrected Text
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Note: To avoid ChangeCipherSpec being transmitted in mix with
   other handshake fragments in one record, ChangeCipherSpec is
   an independent TLS protocol content type, and is not actually
   a TLS handshake message.  To help avoid pipeline stalls, 
   ChangeCipherSpec is sent from both the server and the client.

Notes
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The original text can be read like we can handle ChangeCipherSpec asynchronously.
This is harmful and may  be a cause of CCS Injection vulnerability.

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RFC5246 (draft-ietf-tls-rfc4346-bis-10)
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Title               : The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2
Publication Date    : August 2008
Author(s)           : T. Dierks, E. Rescorla
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : Transport Layer Security
Area                : Security
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG