From 07ab6b6274057612a056b5db754d9bcbd319d291 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 10:04:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tcp: make challenge acks less predictable commit 75ff39ccc1bd5d3c455b6822ab09e533c551f758 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Yuchung Cheng Cc: Neal Cardwell Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context - Use ACCESS_ONCE() instead of {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() - Open-code prandom_u32_max()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-format-patch failed