Hello Sankarshan,

you should post this on the net...@vger.kernel.org mailing list
since this is an IPsec stack problem of the Linux kernel and
doesn't have anything todo with strongSwan which is a userland
IKE daemon.

Best regards

Andreas


On 08/17/2011 02:29 PM, sankarshan deb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>           I have configured StrongSwan with IPSEC ESP using AES-GCM256.
>           Sent an ICMP echo request in the secured interface with
> misaligned data.
>           IPSec should drop the packet.But it is forwarding the ICMP
> packet on non-secured interface.
>          
> 
>          My ipsec.conf:
> 
>    conn net-net
>         type=tunnel
>         #type=transport
>         ike=3des-sha1-modp1024
>         esp=aes256gcm128-modp2048
>         #esp=3des-sha1
>         left=10.1.1.10
>       #  leftid=10.1.1.10
>         leftsubnet=20.1.1.30/32 <http://20.1.1.30/32>
>         #leftid=@sun.strongswan.org <http://sun.strongswan.org>
>         leftfirewall=yes
>         right=10.1.1.30
>       #  rightid=10.1.1.30
>         rightsubnet=10.1.1.30/32 <http://10.1.1.30/32>
>         #rightid=@moon.strongswan.org <http://moon.strongswan.org>
>         auto=add
>         authby=secret
> 
> 
>        Original icmp packet:(Plain text)
>        Ip HDR(src:10.1.1.30,dst:20.1.1.30)(20 bytes)
>        ICMP HDR(8byte)
>        ICMP DATA(44 byte)      
> 
>        Packet on secured interface: 10.1.1.30->10.1.1.10
> 
>        Outer IP HDR(dst ip:10.1.1.10,src ip:10.1.1.30)(20 byte)
>        Security Parameter Index = 0xC214E310 (4byte)
>        Sequence Number          = 0x00000001 (4byte)
>        IV (8 byte)
>        Cipher text(72 + 2(next header + padlen) + 2(padding) + 1( to
> make the data misaligned in 4 byte boundary)) (Total 77)
>        Auth data(16 byte)
> 
> 
>        Strongswan Ipsec implementation should discard the packet as the
> Pad Length and Next Header field NOT right aligned within 4-byte word.
> 
>        But I received the original icmp packet on the plaintext
> interface (10.1.1.30->20.1.1.30)
>      
>        Please let me know the reason.
> 
> Thanks and Regards
> Sankarshan
>       
> 
> 
>         
> 
> 
> 
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>              
> 
> 
> 
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