resource exhaustion attacks.
For network link optimization TCP can adjust its MSS and thus
packet size according to the observed path MTU. This is done
dynamically based on feedback from the remote host and network
components along the packet path. This information can be
abused to pretend an extremely low path MTU.
The resource exhaustion works in two ways:
o during tcp connection setup the advertized local MSS is
exchanged between the endpoints. The remote endpoint can
set this arbitrarily low (except for a minimum MTU of 64
octets enforced in the BSD code). When the local host is
sending data it is forced to send many small IP packets
instead of a large one.
For example instead of the normal TCP payload size of 1448
it forces TCP payload size of 12 (MTU 64) and thus we have
a 120 times increase in workload and packets. On fast links
this quickly saturates the local CPU and may also hit pps
processing limites of network components along the path.
This type of attack is particularly effective for servers
where the attacker can download large files (WWW and FTP).
We mitigate it by enforcing a minimum MTU settable by sysctl
net.inet.tcp.minmss defaulting to 256 octets.
o the local host is reveiving data on a TCP connection from
the remote host. The local host has no control over the
packet size the remote host is sending. The remote host
may chose to do what is described in the first attack and
send the data in packets with an TCP payload of at least
one byte. For each packet the tcp_input() function will
be entered, the packet is processed and a sowakeup() is
signalled to the connected process.
For example an attack with 2 Mbit/s gives 4716 packets per
second and the same amount of sowakeup()s to the process
(and context switches).
This type of attack is particularly effective for servers
where the attacker can upload large amounts of data.
Normally this is the case with WWW server where large POSTs
can be made.
We mitigate this by calculating the average MSS payload per
second. If it goes below 'net.inet.tcp.minmss' and the pps
rate is above 'net.inet.tcp.minmssoverload' defaulting to
1000 this particular TCP connection is resetted and dropped.
MITRE CVE: CAN-2004-0002
Reviewed by: sam (mentor)
MFC after: 1 day
are acting as router (ipforwarding enabled).
This doesn't fix the problem that host routes from ICMP redirects
are never removed from the kernel routing table but removes the
problem for machines doing packet forwarding.
Reviewed by: sam (mentor)
the routing table. Move all usage and references in the tcp stack
from the routing table metrics to the tcp hostcache.
It caches measured parameters of past tcp sessions to provide better
initial start values for following connections from or to the same
source or destination. Depending on the network parameters to/from
the remote host this can lead to significant speedups for new tcp
connections after the first one because they inherit and shortcut
the learning curve.
tcp_hostcache is designed for multiple concurrent access in SMP
environments with high contention and is hash indexed by remote
ip address.
It removes significant locking requirements from the tcp stack with
regard to the routing table.
Reviewed by: sam (mentor), bms
Reviewed by: -net, -current, core@kame.net (IPv6 parts)
Approved by: re (scottl)
accordingly. The define is left intact for ABI compatibility
with userland.
This is a pre-step for the introduction of tcp_hostcache. The
network stack remains fully useable with this change.
Reviewed by: sam (mentor), bms
Reviewed by: -net, -current, core@kame.net (IPv6 parts)
Approved by: re (scottl)
complex locking and rework ip_rtaddr() to do its own rtlookup.
Adopt all its callers to this and make ip_output() callable
with NULL rt pointer.
Reviewed by: sam (mentor)
preemption two CPUs can be in the same function at the same time
and clobber each others variables. Remove register declaration
from local variables.
Reviewed by: sam (mentor)
with an mbuf until it is reclaimed. This is in contrast to tags that
vanish when an mbuf chain passes through an interface. Persistent tags
are used, for example, by MAC labels.
Add an m_tag_delete_nonpersistent function to strip non-persistent tags
from mbufs and use it to strip such tags from packets as they pass through
the loopback interface and when turned around by icmp. This fixes problems
with "tag leakage".
Pointed out by: Jonathan Stone
Reviewed by: Robert Watson
that covers updates to the contents. Note this is separate from holding
a reference and/or locking the routing table itself.
Other/related changes:
o rtredirect loses the final parameter by which an rtentry reference
may be returned; this was never used and added unwarranted complexity
for locking.
o minor style cleanups to routing code (e.g. ansi-fy function decls)
o remove the logic to bump the refcnt on the parent of cloned routes,
we assume the parent will remain as long as the clone; doing this avoids
a circularity in locking during delete
o convert some timeouts to MPSAFE callouts
Notes:
1. rt_mtx in struct rtentry is guarded by #ifdef _KERNEL as user-level
applications cannot/do-no know about mutex's. Doing this requires
that the mutex be the last element in the structure. A better solution
is to introduce an externalized version of struct rtentry but this is
a major task because of the intertwining of rtentry and other data
structures that are visible to user applications.
2. There are known LOR's that are expected to go away with forthcoming
work to eliminate many held references. If not these will be resolved
prior to release.
3. ATM changes are untested.
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Obtained from: BSD/OS (partly)
mac_reflect_mbuf_icmp()
mac_reflect_mbuf_tcp()
These entry points permit MAC policies to do "update in place"
changes to the labels on ICMP and TCP mbuf headers when an ICMP or
TCP response is generated to a packet outside of the context of
an existing socket. For example, in respond to a ping or a RST
packet to a SYN on a closed port.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
Remove the never completed _IP_VHL version, it has not caught on
anywhere and it would make us incompatible with other BSD netstacks
to retain this version.
Add a CTASSERT protecting sizeof(struct ip) == 20.
Don't let the size of struct ipq depend on the IPDIVERT option.
This is a functional no-op commit.
Approved by: re
configuration stuff as well as conditional code in the IPv4 and IPv6
areas. Everything is conditional on FAST_IPSEC which is mutually
exclusive with IPSEC (KAME IPsec implmentation).
As noted previously, don't use FAST_IPSEC with INET6 at the moment.
Reviewed by: KAME, rwatson
Approved by: silence
Supported by: Vernier Networks
o instead of a list of mbufs use a list of m_tag structures a la openbsd
o for netgraph et. al. extend the stock openbsd m_tag to include a 32-bit
ABI/module number cookie
o for openbsd compatibility define a well-known cookie MTAG_ABI_COMPAT and
use this in defining openbsd-compatible m_tag_find and m_tag_get routines
o rewrite KAME use of aux mbufs in terms of packet tags
o eliminate the most heavily used aux mbufs by adding an additional struct
inpcb parameter to ip_output and ip6_output to allow the IPsec code to
locate the security policy to apply to outbound packets
o bump __FreeBSD_version so code can be conditionalized
o fixup ipfilter's call to ip_output based on __FreeBSD_version
Reviewed by: julian, luigi (silent), -arch, -net, darren
Approved by: julian, silence from everyone else
Obtained from: openbsd (mostly)
MFC after: 1 month
kernel access control.
Add support for labeling most out-going ICMP messages using an
appropriate MAC entry point. Currently, we do not explicitly
label packet reflect (timestamp, echo request) ICMP events,
implicitly using the originating packet label since the mbuf is
reused. This will be made explicit at some point.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
pointer which will then result in the allocated route's reference
count never being decremented. Just flood ping the localhost and
watch refcnt of the 127.0.0.1 route with netstat(1).
Submitted by: jayanth
Back out ip_output.c,v 1.143 and ip_mroute.c,v 1.69 that allowed
ip_output() to be called with a NULL route pointer. The previous
paragraph shows why this was a bad idea in the first place.
MFC after: 0 days
deprecated in favor of the POSIX-defined lowercase variants.
o Change all occurrences of NTOHL() and associated marcros in the
source tree to use the lowercase function variants.
o Add missing license bits to sparc64's <machine/endian.h>.
Approved by: jake
o Clean up <machine/endian.h> files.
o Remove unused __uint16_swap_uint32() from i386's <machine/endian.h>.
o Remove prototypes for non-existent bswapXX() functions.
o Include <machine/endian.h> in <arpa/inet.h> to define the
POSIX-required ntohl() family of functions.
o Do similar things to expose the ntohl() family in libstand, <netinet/in.h>,
and <sys/param.h>.
o Prepend underscores to the ntohl() family to help deal with
complexities associated with having MD (asm and inline) versions, and
having to prevent exposure of these functions in other headers that
happen to make use of endian-specific defines.
o Create weak aliases to the canonical function name to help deal with
third-party software forgetting to include an appropriate header.
o Remove some now unneeded pollution from <sys/types.h>.
o Add missing <arpa/inet.h> includes in userland.
Tested on: alpha, i386
Reviewed by: bde, jake, tmm
(We should be able to handle locally originated IP packets, and
these do not have m_pkthdr.rcvif set.)
PR: kern/32806, kern/33766
Reviewed by: luigi
Fix tested by: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>,
Erwin Lansing <erwin@lansing.dk>
received on an interface without an IP address, try to find a
non-loopback AF_INET address to use. If that fails, drop it.
Previously, we used the address at the top of the in_ifaddrhead list,
which didn't make much sense, and would cause a panic if there were no
AF_INET addresses configured on the system.
PR: 29337, 30524
Reviewed by: ru, jlemon
Obtained from: NetBSD
This work was based on kame-20010528-freebsd43-snap.tgz and some
critical problem after the snap was out were fixed.
There are many many changes since last KAME merge.
TODO:
- The definitions of SADB_* in sys/net/pfkeyv2.h are still different
from RFC2407/IANA assignment because of binary compatibility
issue. It should be fixed under 5-CURRENT.
- ip6po_m member of struct ip6_pktopts is no longer used. But, it
is still there because of binary compatibility issue. It should
be removed under 5-CURRENT.
Reviewed by: itojun
Obtained from: KAME
MFC after: 3 weeks
Change code from PRC_UNREACH_ADMIN_PROHIB to PRC_UNREACH_PORT for
ICMP_UNREACH_PROTOCOL and ICMP_UNREACH_PORT
And let TCP treat PRC_UNREACH_PORT like PRC_UNREACH_ADMIN_PROHIB
This should fix the case where port unreachables for udp returned
ENETRESET instead of ECONNREFUSED
Problem found by: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
Reviewed by: jlemon
on certain types of SOCK_RAW sockets. Also, use the ip.ttl MIB
variable instead of MAXTTL constant as the default time-to-live
value for outgoing IP packets all over the place, as we already
do this for TCP and UDP.
Reviewed by: wollman
an IP header with ip_len in network byte order. For certain
values of ip_len, this could cause icmp_error() to write
beyond the end of an mbuf, causing mbuf free-list corruption.
This problem was observed during generation of ICMP redirects.
We now make quite sure that the copy of the IP header kept
for icmp_error() is stored in a non-shared mbuf header so
that it will not be modified by ip_output().
Also:
- Calculate the correct number of bytes that need to be
retained for icmp_error(), instead of assuming that 64
is enough (it's not).
- In icmp_error(), use m_copydata instead of bcopy() to
copy from the supplied mbuf chain, in case the first 8
bytes of IP payload are not stored directly after the IP
header.
- Sanity-check ip_len in icmp_error(), and panic if it is
less than sizeof(struct ip). Incoming packets with bad
ip_len values are discarded in ip_input(), so this should
only be triggered by bugs in the code, not by bad packets.
This patch results from code and suggestions from Ruslan, Bosko,
Jonathan Lemon and Matt Dillon, with important testing by Mike
Tancsa, who could reproduce this problem at will.
Reported by: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Reviewed by: ru, bmilekic, jlemon, dillon
reset TCP connections which are in the SYN_SENT state, if the sequence
number in the echoed ICMP reply is correct. This behavior can be
controlled by the sysctl net.inet.tcp.icmp_may_rst.
Currently, only subtypes 2,3,10,11,12 are treated as such
(port, protocol and administrative unreachables).
Assocaiate an error code with these resets which is reported to the
user application: ENETRESET.
Disallow resetting TCP sessions which are not in a SYN_SENT state.
Reviewed by: jesper, -net
Add new PRC_UNREACH_ADMIN_PROHIB in sys/sys/protosw.h
Remove condition on TCP in src/sys/netinet/ip_icmp.c:icmp_input
In src/sys/netinet/ip_icmp.c:icmp_input set code = PRC_UNREACH_ADMIN_PROHIB
or PRC_UNREACH_HOST for all unreachables except ICMP_UNREACH_NEEDFRAG
Rename sysctl icmp_admin_prohib_like_rst to icmp_unreach_like_rst
to reflect the fact that we also react on ICMP unreachables that
are not administrative prohibited. Also update the comments to
reflect this.
In sys/netinet/tcp_subr.c:tcp_ctlinput add code to treat
PRC_UNREACH_ADMIN_PROHIB and PRC_UNREACH_HOST different.
PR: 23986
Submitted by: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
were performed to determine if the received packet should be reset. This
created erroneous ratelimiting and false alarms in some cases. The code
has now been reorganized so that the checks for validity come before
the call to badport_bandlim. Additionally, a few changes in the symbolic
names of the bandlim types have been made, as well as a clarification of
exactly which type each RST case falls under.
Submitted by: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
messages send by routers when they deny our traffic, this causes
a timeout when trying to connect to TCP ports/services on a remote
host, which is blocked by routers or firewalls.
rfc1122 (Requirements for Internet Hosts) section 3.2.2.1 actually
requi re that we treat such a message for a TCP session, that we
treat it like if we had recieved a RST.
quote begin.
A Destination Unreachable message that is received MUST be
reported to the transport layer. The transport layer SHOULD
use the information appropriately; for example, see Sections
4.1.3.3, 4.2.3.9, and 4.2.4 below. A transport protocol
that has its own mechanism for notifying the sender that a
port is unreachable (e.g., TCP, which sends RST segments)
MUST nevertheless accept an ICMP Port Unreachable for the
same purpose.
quote end.
I've written a small extension that implement this, it also create
a sysctl "net.inet.tcp.icmp_admin_prohib_like_rst" to control if
this new behaviour is activated.
When it's activated (set to 1) we'll treat a ICMP administratively
prohibited message (icmp type 3 code 9, 10 and 13) for a TCP
sessions, as if we recived a TCP RST, but only if the TCP session
is in SYN_SENT state.
The reason for only reacting when in SYN_SENT state, is that this
will solve the problem, and at the same time minimize the risk of
this being abused.
I suggest that we enable this new behaviour by default, but it
would be a change of current behaviour, so if people prefer to
leave it disabled by default, at least for now, this would be ok
for me, the attached diff actually have the sysctl set to 0 by
default.
PR: 23086
Submitted by: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
1. ICMP ECHO and TSTAMP replies are now rate limited.
2. RSTs generated due to packets sent to open and unopen ports
are now limited by seperate counters.
3. Each rate limiting queue now has its own description, as
follows:
Limiting icmp unreach response from 439 to 200 packets per second
Limiting closed port RST response from 283 to 200 packets per second
Limiting open port RST response from 18724 to 200 packets per second
Limiting icmp ping response from 211 to 200 packets per second
Limiting icmp tstamp response from 394 to 200 packets per second
Submitted by: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
fields between host and network byte order. The details:
o icmp_error() now does not add IP header length. This fixes the problem
when icmp_error() is called from ip_forward(). In this case the ip_len
of the original IP datagram returned with ICMP error was wrong.
o icmp_error() expects all three fields, ip_len, ip_id and ip_off in host
byte order, so DTRT and convert these fields back to network byte order
before sending a message. This fixes the problem described in PR 16240
and PR 20877 (ip_id field was returned in host byte order).
o ip_ttl decrement operation in ip_forward() was moved down to make sure
that it does not corrupt the copy of original IP datagram passed later
to icmp_error().
o A copy of original IP datagram in ip_forward() was made a read-write,
independent copy. This fixes the problem I first reported to Garrett
Wollman and Bill Fenner and later put in audit trail of PR 16240:
ip_output() (not always) converts fields of original datagram to network
byte order, but because copy (mcopy) and its original (m) most likely
share the same mbuf cluster, ip_output()'s manipulations on original
also corrupted the copy.
o ip_output() now expects all three fields, ip_len, ip_off and (what is
significant) ip_id in host byte order. It was a headache for years that
ip_id was handled differently. The only compatibility issue here is the
raw IP socket interface with IP_HDRINCL socket option set and a non-zero
ip_id field, but ip.4 manual page was unclear on whether in this case
ip_id field should be in host or network byte order.
o Drop all broadcast and multicast source addresses in tcp_input.
o Enable ICMP_BANDLIM in GENERIC.
o Change default to 200/s from 100/s. This will still stop the attack, but
is conservative enough to do this close to code freeze.
This is not the optimal patch for the problem, but is likely the least
intrusive patch that can be made for this.
Obtained from: Don Lewis and Matt Dillon.
Reviewed by: freebsd-security
pr_input() routines prototype is also changed to support IPSEC and IPV6
chained protocol headers.
Reviewed by: freebsd-arch, cvs-committers
Obtained from: KAME project
