tcp: make challenge acks less predictable
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 08:04:02 +0000 (10:04 +0200)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 21:37:19 +0000 (22:37 +0100)
commit07ab6b6274057612a056b5db754d9bcbd319d291
treed5c080200b516669b7ad6978adf2185495b5d52f
parent948969a457e89903d180d01cbcbfee59c16f5bb5
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 <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>
[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 <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c