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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2016-07-10 10:04:02 +0200
committerTasayco Loarte, VictorX <victorx.tasayco.loarte@intel.com>2016-10-19 09:56:48 +0100
commit99337d3e86c30e8b688f50f400b09c30f2c94671 (patch)
treea2c66bc7d846e0215fea0e0bc477c97039c6aa86
parentb8bca231e1cd7c5f833674a0bbe6ac3a08a89929 (diff)
downloadx86-99337d3e86c30e8b688f50f400b09c30f2c94671.tar.gz
BACKPORT: tcp: make challenge acks less predictable
(cherry picked from commit 75ff39ccc1bd5d3c455b6822ab09e533c551f758) CVE-2016-5696 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. Tracked-On: https://jira01.devtools.intel.com/browse/AW-2263 Fixes: 282f23c6ee34 ("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> Change-Id: Ib46ba66f5e4a5a7c81bfccd7b0aa83c3d9e1b3bb Bug: 30809774 Reviewed-on: https://android.intel.com/545361 Reviewed-by: Mahe, Erwan <erwan.mahe@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Dubray, SimonX <simonx.dubray@intel.com> Tested-by: Mahe, Erwan <erwan.mahe@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tasayco Loarte, VictorX <victorx.tasayco.loarte@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Maalem, Saadi <saadi.maalem@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_input.c12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 5646b3a1250f..42936f6f609a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ int sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale __read_mostly = 1;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale);
/* rfc5961 challenge ack rate limiting */
-int sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 100;
+int sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 1000;
int sysctl_tcp_stdurg __read_mostly;
int sysctl_tcp_rfc1337 __read_mostly;
@@ -3289,12 +3289,18 @@ static void tcp_send_challenge_ack(struct sock *sk)
static u32 challenge_timestamp;
static unsigned int challenge_count;
u32 now = jiffies / HZ;
+ u32 count;
if (now != challenge_timestamp) {
+ u32 half = (sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit + 1) >> 1;
+
challenge_timestamp = now;
- challenge_count = 0;
+ WRITE_ONCE(challenge_count, half +
+ prandom_u32_max(sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit));
}
- if (++challenge_count <= sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit) {
+ count = READ_ONCE(challenge_count);
+ if (count > 0) {
+ WRITE_ONCE(challenge_count, count - 1);
NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPCHALLENGEACK);
tcp_send_ack(sk);
}