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Eric Dumazet authored
[ Upstream commit 75ff39cc ] 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:
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>
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