Support fragmented TLS handshake records

DPI bypass tools like ByeDPI fragment a single TLS record into multiple
records to evade censorship. This broke ReadClientHello because it
assumed the entire ClientHello arrives in one TLS record.

Add reassembleTLSHandshake that reads continuation records and
reconstructs a single TLS record before parsing and HMAC verification.
Per RFC 5246 Section 6.2.1, handshake messages may be fragmented
across multiple records — this is valid TLS behavior.
This commit is contained in:
appolimp
2026-04-01 09:05:24 +03:00
parent a3663fe8b5
commit 38abee7d7f
3 changed files with 395 additions and 17 deletions
+122 -16
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@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
"crypto/sha256"
"crypto/subtle"
"encoding/binary"
"errors"
"fmt"
"io"
"net"
@@ -23,6 +24,11 @@ const (
RandomOffset = 1 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 3 + 2
sniDNSNamesListType = 0
// maxContinuationRecords limits the number of continuation TLS records
// that reassembleTLSHandshake will read. This prevents resource exhaustion
// from adversarial fragmentation.
maxContinuationRecords = 10
)
var (
@@ -56,12 +62,18 @@ func ReadClientHello(
// 4. New digest should be all 0 except of last 4 bytes
// 5. Last 4 bytes are little endian uint32 of UNIX timestamp when
// this message was created.
handshakeCopyBuf := &bytes.Buffer{}
reader := io.TeeReader(conn, handshakeCopyBuf)
reader, err := parseTLSHeader(reader)
reassembled, err := reassembleTLSHandshake(conn)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot parse tls header: %w", err)
return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot reassemble TLS records: %w", err)
}
handshakeCopyBuf := &bytes.Buffer{}
reader := io.TeeReader(reassembled, handshakeCopyBuf)
// Skip the TLS record header (validated during reassembly).
// The header still flows through TeeReader into handshakeCopyBuf for HMAC.
if _, err = io.CopyN(io.Discard, reader, tls.SizeHeader); err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot skip tls header: %w", err)
}
reader, err = parseHandshakeHeader(reader)
@@ -110,17 +122,30 @@ func ReadClientHello(
return hello, nil
}
func parseTLSHeader(r io.Reader) (io.Reader, error) {
// record_type(1) + version(2) + size(2)
// 16 - type is 0x16 (handshake record)
// 03 01 - protocol version is "3,1" (also known as TLS 1.0)
// 00 f8 - 0xF8 (248) bytes of handshake message follows
header := [1 + 2 + 2]byte{}
// reassembleTLSHandshake reads one or more TLS records from conn,
// validates the record type and version, and reassembles fragmented
// handshake payloads into a single TLS record.
//
// Per RFC 5246 Section 6.2.1, handshake messages may be fragmented
// across multiple TLS records. DPI bypass tools like ByeDPI use this
// to evade censorship.
//
// The returned buffer contains the full TLS record (header + payload)
// so that callers can include the header in HMAC computation.
func reassembleTLSHandshake(conn io.Reader) (*bytes.Buffer, error) {
header := [tls.SizeHeader]byte{}
if _, err := io.ReadFull(r, header[:]); err != nil {
if _, err := io.ReadFull(conn, header[:]); err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot read record header: %w", err)
}
length := int64(binary.BigEndian.Uint16(header[3:]))
payload := &bytes.Buffer{}
if _, err := io.CopyN(payload, conn, length); err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot read record payload: %w", err)
}
if header[0] != tls.TypeHandshake {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("unexpected record type %#x", header[0])
}
@@ -129,12 +154,93 @@ func parseTLSHeader(r io.Reader) (io.Reader, error) {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("unexpected protocol version %#x %#x", header[1], header[2])
}
length := int64(binary.BigEndian.Uint16(header[3:]))
buf := &bytes.Buffer{}
// Reassemble fragmented payload. continuationCount caps the total
// number of continuation records across both phases below.
continuationCount := 0
_, err := io.CopyN(buf, r, length)
// Phase 1: read continuation records until we have at least the
// 4-byte handshake header (type + uint24 length) to determine the
// expected total size.
for ; payload.Len() < 4 && continuationCount < maxContinuationRecords; continuationCount++ {
prevLen := payload.Len()
return buf, err
if err := readContinuationRecord(conn, payload); err != nil {
payload.Truncate(prevLen) // discard partial data on error
if errors.Is(err, io.EOF) || errors.Is(err, io.ErrUnexpectedEOF) {
break // no more records — let downstream parsing handle what we have
}
return nil, err
}
}
// Phase 2: we know the expected handshake size — read remaining
// continuation records until the payload is complete.
if payload.Len() >= 4 {
p := payload.Bytes()
expectedTotal := 4 + (int(p[1])<<16 | int(p[2])<<8 | int(p[3]))
if expectedTotal > 0xFFFF {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("handshake message too large: %d bytes", expectedTotal)
}
for ; payload.Len() < expectedTotal && continuationCount < maxContinuationRecords; continuationCount++ {
if err := readContinuationRecord(conn, payload); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
}
if payload.Len() < expectedTotal {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot reassemble handshake: too many continuation records")
}
payload.Truncate(expectedTotal)
}
if payload.Len() > 0xFFFF {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("reassembled payload too large: %d bytes", payload.Len())
}
// Reconstruct a single TLS record with the reassembled payload.
result := &bytes.Buffer{}
result.Grow(tls.SizeHeader + payload.Len())
result.Write(header[:3])
binary.Write(result, binary.BigEndian, uint16(payload.Len())) //nolint:errcheck // bytes.Buffer.Write never fails
result.Write(payload.Bytes())
return result, nil
}
// readContinuationRecord reads the next TLS record header and appends its
// full payload to dst. It returns an error if the record is not a handshake
// record.
func readContinuationRecord(conn io.Reader, dst *bytes.Buffer) error {
nextHeader := [tls.SizeHeader]byte{}
if _, err := io.ReadFull(conn, nextHeader[:]); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("cannot read continuation record header: %w", err)
}
if nextHeader[0] != tls.TypeHandshake {
return fmt.Errorf("unexpected continuation record type %#x", nextHeader[0])
}
if nextHeader[1] != 3 || nextHeader[2] != 1 {
return fmt.Errorf("unexpected continuation record version %#x %#x", nextHeader[1], nextHeader[2])
}
nextLength := int64(binary.BigEndian.Uint16(nextHeader[3:]))
if nextLength == 0 {
return fmt.Errorf("zero-length continuation record")
}
if _, err := io.CopyN(dst, conn, nextLength); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("cannot read continuation record payload: %w", err)
}
return nil
}
func parseHandshakeHeader(r io.Reader) (io.Reader, error) {