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Subject[ 041/171] netfilter: Validate the sequence number of dataless ACK packets as well
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3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>

commit 4a70bbfaef0361d27272629d1a250a937edcafe4 upstream.

We spare nothing by not validating the sequence number of dataless
ACK packets and enabling it makes harder off-path attacks.

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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c | 10 ++--------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
@@ -627,15 +627,9 @@ static bool tcp_in_window(const struct n
ack = sack = receiver->td_end;
}

- if (seq == end
- && (!tcph->rst
- || (seq == 0 && state->state == TCP_CONNTRACK_SYN_SENT)))
+ if (tcph->rst && seq == 0 && state->state == TCP_CONNTRACK_SYN_SENT)
/*
- * Packets contains no data: we assume it is valid
- * and check the ack value only.
- * However RST segments are always validated by their
- * SEQ number, except when seq == 0 (reset sent answering
- * SYN.
+ * RST sent answering SYN.
*/
seq = end = sender->td_end;




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