[ 21/89] netfilter: Mark SYN/ACK packets as invalid from original direction
From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2012-12-03 14:38:52
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Pablo Neira Ayuso, Florian Westphal, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jozsef Kadlecsik <redacted> 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 <redacted> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <redacted> --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c | 19 ++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
index 37bf943..1eb458c 100644
--- 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_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 },