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tcp: should drop incoming frames without ACK flag set
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:44:34 +0000 (12:44 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:08:55 +0000 (15:08 -0800)
commite566eb00dd7c298073747ebb053286b60f21ae5f
treeef786563e00bac6b58b96cc7f0ebbaf487982fa6
parent79525eb61c67d3b2bde38e69ba4b59e6133feb20
tcp: should drop incoming frames without ACK flag set

In commit 9b12466b1e549 (tcp: Discard segments that ack data not yet
sent) John Dykstra enforced a check against ack sequences.

In commit 29260eae7c5cb (tcp: RFC 5961 5.2 Blind Data Injection Attack
Mitigation) I added more safety tests.

But we missed fact that these tests are not performed if ACK bit is
not set.

RFC 793 3.9 mandates TCP should drop a frame without ACK flag set.

" fifth check the ACK field,
      if the ACK bit is off drop the segment and return"

Not doing so permits an attacker to only guess an acceptable sequence
number, evading stronger checks.

Many thanks to Zhiyun Qian for bringing this issue to our attention.

See :
http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~zhiyunq/pub/ccs12_TCP_sequence_number_inference.pdf

Reported-by: Zhiyun Qian <zhiyunq@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c