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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)
commitbd66127128a44816e9b5f5948340c7ccb1716889
treedfaab8e11cc386563770039563c5f3f64f22a109
parentb9ce4a78686de990626622dfe37f9f548f8fa083
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: dbe400804f0b ("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