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Commit 073aec8f authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg Committed by Peter Schelchshorn
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ipv6: add option to drop unicast encapsulated in L2 multicast



In order to solve a problem with 802.11, the so-called hole-196 attack,
add an option (sysctl) called "drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast" which, if
enabled, causes the stack to drop IPv6 unicast packets encapsulated in
link-layer multi- or broadcast frames. Such frames can (as an attack)
be created by any member of the same wireless network and transmitted
as valid encrypted frames since the symmetric key for broadcast frames
is shared between all stations.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit 076252090c946f21e001e186da7f24b8bf4bff99)
Change-Id: I445621aadc1954e53dd21131091cc915fea1a6d0
parent 4b070582
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