From 86791bbfe5ed7b275be040cfeff049a1624af1b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:13:05 +0200 Subject: tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2 [ Upstream commit 282f23c6ee343126156dd41218b22ece96d747e3 ] Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind Reset attack using RST bit. Idea is to validate incoming RST sequence, to match RCV.NXT value, instead of previouly accepted window : (RCV.NXT <= SEG.SEQ < RCV.NXT+RCV.WND) If sequence is in window but not an exact match, send a "challenge ACK", so that the other part can resend an RST with the appropriate sequence. Add a new sysctl, tcp_challenge_ack_limit, to limit number of challenge ACK sent per second. Add a new SNMP counter to count number of challenge acks sent. (netstat -s | grep TCPChallengeACK) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/ipv4/proc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'net/ipv4/proc.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/proc.c b/net/ipv4/proc.c index b14ec7d..14f264d 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/proc.c +++ b/net/ipv4/proc.c @@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_list[] = { SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPDeferAcceptDrop", LINUX_MIB_TCPDEFERACCEPTDROP), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("IPReversePathFilter", LINUX_MIB_IPRPFILTER), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPTimeWaitOverflow", LINUX_MIB_TCPTIMEWAITOVERFLOW), + SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPChallengeACK", LINUX_MIB_TCPCHALLENGEACK), SNMP_MIB_SENTINEL }; -- cgit v1.1 From ab5c718d0fd643ba6f2112235e12ea5222f4edf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 01:41:30 +0000 Subject: tcp: implement RFC 5961 4.2 [ Upstream commit 0c24604b68fc7810d429d6c3657b6f148270e528 ] Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind Reset attack using SYN bit. Section 4.2 of RFC 5961 advises to send a Challenge ACK and drop incoming packet, instead of resetting the session. Add a new SNMP counter to count number of challenge acks sent in response to SYN packets. (netstat -s | grep TCPSYNChallenge) Remove obsolete TCPAbortOnSyn, since we no longer abort a TCP session because of a SYN flag. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/ipv4/proc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/proc.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/proc.c b/net/ipv4/proc.c index 14f264d..df0f815 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/proc.c +++ b/net/ipv4/proc.c @@ -232,7 +232,6 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_list[] = { SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPDSACKOfoSent", LINUX_MIB_TCPDSACKOFOSENT), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPDSACKRecv", LINUX_MIB_TCPDSACKRECV), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPDSACKOfoRecv", LINUX_MIB_TCPDSACKOFORECV), - SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPAbortOnSyn", LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONSYN), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPAbortOnData", LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONDATA), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPAbortOnClose", LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONCLOSE), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPAbortOnMemory", LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONMEMORY), @@ -255,6 +254,7 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_list[] = { SNMP_MIB_ITEM("IPReversePathFilter", LINUX_MIB_IPRPFILTER), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPTimeWaitOverflow", LINUX_MIB_TCPTIMEWAITOVERFLOW), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPChallengeACK", LINUX_MIB_TCPCHALLENGEACK), + SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPSYNChallenge", LINUX_MIB_TCPSYNCHALLENGE), SNMP_MIB_SENTINEL }; -- cgit v1.1