From: Jozsef Kadlecsik Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:55:53 +0000 (+0000) Subject: netfilter: Mark SYN/ACK packets as invalid from original direction X-Git-Tag: v3.2.35~69 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b5ce3e0d724f18d39ca996164baef3011ff3c409;p=pandora-kernel.git netfilter: Mark SYN/ACK packets as invalid from original direction commit 64f509ce71b08d037998e93dd51180c19b2f464c upstream. Clients should not send such packets. By accepting them, we open up a hole by wich ephemeral ports can be discovered in an off-path attack. See: "Reflection scan: an Off-Path Attack on TCP" by Jan Wrobel, http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2074 Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-diff-tree failed