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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)
committerChuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com>
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 05:02:13 +0000 (22:02 -0700)
commit618834d55b7c55cfafd087a62373fb336696fa35
treeb916d7500310bc87affb263aebd09c108ceeec9d
parentbd348721b6345130ad1a8a1cb43f33f1518986ff
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: 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>
Orabug: 2401010
Conflicts:
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
Signed-off-by: Chuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com>
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c