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tcp: make challenge acks less predictable
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 08:04:02 +0000 (10:04 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:33:35 +0000 (13:33 -0700)
commit5525ed03c404fca965df21c2dc58dcdc508a4db9
treedfaab8e11cc386563770039563c5f3f64f22a109
parent205b2644b306f856b37275d683948b89a002254c
tcp: make challenge acks less predictable

Yue Cao claims that current host rate limiting of challenge ACKS
(RFC 5961) could leak enough information to allow a patient attacker
to hijack TCP sessions. He will soon provide details in an academic
paper.

This patch increases the default limit from 100 to 1000, and adds
some randomization so that the attacker can no longer hijack
sessions without spending a considerable amount of probes.

Based on initial analysis and patch from Linus.

Note that we also have per socket rate limiting, so it is tempting
to remove the host limit in the future.

v2: randomize the count of challenge acks per second, not the period.

Fixes: 79fe972a0c2e ("tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2")
Reported-by: Yue Cao <ycao009@ucr.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c