Re: Fwd: RFC 6980 on Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery

Hi, Hannes,

Thanks so much for your timely response! -- Please find my comments
in-line...

On 08/14/2013 08:06 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 05:19:13AM -0300, Fernando Gont wrote:

quoted

Folks,

FYI. -- this is an important piece when it comes to First Hop (i.e.,
"local link") Security.

Thanks for the heads-up, Fernando!

I sketched up a patch to protect the receiving side. I still don't know if I
should make this behaviour default or configurable via a sysctl knob. I really
don't want to break existing installations.

Make it the default behavior. If anything, provide a sysctl knob to
override it.

Note: In the specific case of NS/NA messages, it's impossible nowadays
to find them fragmented in a real network (we don't even have options
(other than padding) to make NS/NAs grow so large!).

As an extra plus, we now discard packets with nested fragment headers at once.
Those packets should never have been accepted.

Is that the "goto fail_hdr" part in your patch?

P.S.: What about RS/RA messages?

Cheers,
-- 
Fernando Gont
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