Android Wear 6.0.1 Release 0.95
BACKPORT: tcp: make challenge acks less predictable
(cherry picked from commit 75ff39ccc1bd5d3c455b6822ab09e533c551f758)
CVE-2016-5696
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.
Tracked-On: https://jira01.devtools.intel.com/browse/AW-2264
Fixes: 282f23c6ee34 ("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>
Change-Id: Ib46ba66f5e4a5a7c81bfccd7b0aa83c3d9e1b3bb
Bug: 30809774
Reviewed-on: https://android.intel.com/545361
Reviewed-by: Mahe, Erwan <erwan.mahe@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dubray, SimonX <simonx.dubray@intel.com>
Tested-by: Mahe, Erwan <erwan.mahe@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tasayco Loarte, VictorX <victorx.tasayco.loarte@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Maalem, Saadi <saadi.maalem@intel.com>
1 file changed
