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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2014-07-26 08:58:10 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-07-29 03:46:34 +0200
commit04ca6973f7c1a0d8537f2d9906a0cf8e69886d75 (patch)
tree7f66f046e591ca2f0e58e67cbe19744d674796b4 /net/ipv6
parentneighbour : fix ndm_type type error issue (diff)
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ip: make IP identifiers less predictable
In "Counting Packets Sent Between Arbitrary Internet Hosts", Jeffrey and Jedidiah describe ways exploiting linux IP identifier generation to infer whether two machines are exchanging packets. With commit 73f156a6e8c1 ("inetpeer: get rid of ip_id_count"), we changed IP id generation, but this does not really prevent this side-channel technique. This patch adds a random amount of perturbation so that IP identifiers for a given destination [1] are no longer monotonically increasing after an idle period. Note that prandom_u32_max(1) returns 0, so if generator is used at most once per jiffy, this patch inserts no hole in the ID suite and do not increase collision probability. This is jiffies based, so in the worst case (HZ=1000), the id can rollover after ~65 seconds of idle time, which should be fine. We also change the hash used in __ip_select_ident() to not only hash on daddr, but also saddr and protocol, so that ICMP probes can not be used to infer information for other protocols. For IPv6, adds saddr into the hash as well, but not nexthdr. If I ping the patched target, we can see ID are now hard to predict. 21:57:11.008086 IP (...) A > target: ICMP echo request, seq 1, length 64 21:57:11.010752 IP (... id 2081 ...) target > A: ICMP echo reply, seq 1, length 64 21:57:12.013133 IP (...) A > target: ICMP echo request, seq 2, length 64 21:57:12.015737 IP (... id 3039 ...) target > A: ICMP echo reply, seq 2, length 64 21:57:13.016580 IP (...) A > target: ICMP echo request, seq 3, length 64 21:57:13.019251 IP (... id 3437 ...) target > A: ICMP echo reply, seq 3, length 64 [1] TCP sessions uses a per flow ID generator not changed by this patch. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: Jeffrey Knockel <jeffk@cs.unm.edu> Reported-by: Jedidiah R. Crandall <crandall@cs.unm.edu> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ip6_output.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index cb9df0eb4023..45702b8cd141 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -545,6 +545,8 @@ static void ipv6_select_ident(struct frag_hdr *fhdr, struct rt6_info *rt)
net_get_random_once(&ip6_idents_hashrnd, sizeof(ip6_idents_hashrnd));
hash = __ipv6_addr_jhash(&rt->rt6i_dst.addr, ip6_idents_hashrnd);
+ hash = __ipv6_addr_jhash(&rt->rt6i_src.addr, hash);
+
id = ip_idents_reserve(hash, 1);
fhdr->identification = htonl(id);
}