The CBC mode ciphers in TLS are a disaster. By ordering authentication
and encryption wrong, they are very subtly dependent on details and
implementation of the padding check, admitting attacks such as POODLE
and Lucky13.
crypto/tls does not promise full countermeasures for Lucky13 and still
contains some timing variations. This change fixes one of the easy ones:
by checking the MAC, then the padding, rather than all at once, there is
a very small timing variation between bad MAC and (good MAC, bad
padding).
The consequences depend on the effective padding value used in the MAC
when the padding is bad. extractPadding simply uses the last byte's
value, leaving the padding bytes effectively unchecked. This is the
scenario in SSL 3.0 that led to POODLE. Specifically, the attacker can
take an input record which uses 16 bytes of padding (a full block) and
replace the final block with some interesting block. The MAC check will
succeed with 1/256 probability due to the final byte being 16. This
again means that after 256 queries, the attacker can decrypt one byte.
To fix this, bitwise AND the two values so they may be checked with one
branch. Additionally, zero the padding if the padding check failed, to
make things more robust.