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Commit eede2b61 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by Gerrit - the friendly Code Review server
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tcp: make challenge acks less predictable



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: 282f23c6 ("tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2")
Reported-by: default avatarYue Cao <ycao009@ucr.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Change-Id: I1bf93d033e788c37899837f0c9e930bc4e20aa4c
Git-repo: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git


Git-commit: 75ff39ccc1bd5d3c455b6822ab09e533c551f758
[d-cagle@codeaurora.org: Resolve trivial merge conflict]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDennis Cagle <d-cagle@codeaurora.org>
parent 1fac7f53
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