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| author | Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu> | 2012-08-31 09:55:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> | 2012-09-09 22:13:30 +0200 |
| commit | 64f509ce71b08d037998e93dd51180c19b2f464c (patch) | |
| tree | 3ccafa55245faaa0580e86f705548bbfe6cf3108 /net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c | |
| parent | 0626af3139572610b56376580d11eb65d45d9dd7 (diff) | |
netfilter: Mark SYN/ACK packets as invalid from original direction
Clients should not send such packets. By accepting them, we open
up a hole by wich ephemeral ports can be discovered in an off-path
attack.
See: "Reflection scan: an Off-Path Attack on TCP" by Jan Wrobel,
http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2074
Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c index a5ac11ebef33..aba98f942979 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c @@ -158,21 +158,18 @@ static const u8 tcp_conntracks[2][6][TCP_CONNTRACK_MAX] = { * sCL -> sSS */ /* sNO, sSS, sSR, sES, sFW, sCW, sLA, sTW, sCL, sS2 */ -/*synack*/ { sIV, sIV, sIG, sIG, sIG, sIG, sIG, sIG, sIG, sSR }, +/*synack*/ { sIV, sIV, sSR, sIV, sIV, sIV, sIV, sIV, sIV, sSR }, /* * sNO -> sIV Too late and no reason to do anything * sSS -> sIV Client can't send SYN and then SYN/ACK * sS2 -> sSR SYN/ACK sent to SYN2 in simultaneous open - * sSR -> sIG - * sES -> sIG Error: SYNs in window outside the SYN_SENT state - * are errors. Receiver will reply with RST - * and close the connection. - * Or we are not in sync and hold a dead connection. - * sFW -> sIG - * sCW -> sIG - * sLA -> sIG - * sTW -> sIG - * sCL -> sIG + * sSR -> sSR Late retransmitted SYN/ACK in simultaneous open + * sES -> sIV Invalid SYN/ACK packets sent by the client + * sFW -> sIV + * sCW -> sIV + * sLA -> sIV + * sTW -> sIV + * sCL -> sIV */ /* sNO, sSS, sSR, sES, sFW, sCW, sLA, sTW, sCL, sS2 */ /*fin*/ { sIV, sIV, sFW, sFW, sLA, sLA, sLA, sTW, sCL, sIV }, |