This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netfilter: Mark SYN/ACK packets as invalid from original direction
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
netfilter-mark-syn-ack-packets-as-invalid-from-original-direction.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 64f509ce71b08d037998e93dd51180c19b2f464c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jozsef Kadlecsik <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:55:53 +0000
Subject: netfilter: Mark SYN/ACK packets as invalid from original direction
From: Jozsef Kadlecsik <[email protected]>
commit 64f509ce71b08d037998e93dd51180c19b2f464c upstream.
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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c | 19 ++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
@@ -159,21 +159,18 @@ static const u8 tcp_conntracks[2][6][TCP
* 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 },
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected]
are
queue-3.0/netfilter-validate-the-sequence-number-of-dataless-ack-packets-as-well.patch
queue-3.0/netfilter-mark-syn-ack-packets-as-invalid-from-original-direction.patch
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