Commit 4a70bbfa authored by Jozsef Kadlecsik's avatar Jozsef Kadlecsik Committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: Validate the sequence number of dataless ACK packets as well

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/1201.2074Signed-off-by: default avatarJozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
parent 64f509ce
......@@ -630,15 +630,9 @@ static bool tcp_in_window(const struct nf_conn *ct,
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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