netfilter: Mark SYN/ACK packets as invalid from original direction
authorJozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:55:53 +0000 (09:55 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:20:10 +0000 (11:20 +0000)
commitb5ce3e0d724f18d39ca996164baef3011ff3c409
tree87dbfc6cc516ee7c2b770ddbd9959fa679ce918c
parentc8a84725562375ddd0b86671012292704bdc2419
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 <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c