where if you are using the "reset tcp" firewall command,
the kernel would write ethernet headers onto random kernel stack locations.
Fought to the death by: terry, julian, archie.
fix valid for 2.2 series as well.
The #ifdef IPXIP in netipx/ipx_if.h is OK (used from ipx_usrreq.c and
ifconfig.c only).
I also fixed a typo IPXTUNNEL -> IPTUNNEL (and #ifdef'ed out the code
inside, as it never could have compiled - doh.)
close small security hole where an atacker could sendpackets with
IPDIVERT protocol, and select how it would be diverted thus bypassing
the ipfirewall. Discovered by inspection rather than attack.
(you'd have to know how the firewall was configured (EXACTLY) to
make use of this but..)
hope i've found out all files that actually depend on this dependancy.
IMHO, it's not very good practice to change the size of internal
structs depending on kernel options.
Distribute all but the most fundamental malloc types. This time I also
remembered the trick to making things static: Put "static" in front of
them.
A couple of finer points by: bde
represent in the TCP header. The old code did effectively:
win = min(win, MAX_ALLOWED);
win = max(win, what_i_think_i_advertised_last_time);
so if what_i_think_i_advertised_last_time is bigger than can be
represented in the header (e.g. large buffers and no window scaling)
then we stuff a too-big number into a short. This fix reverses the
order of the comparisons.
PR: kern/4712
RST's being ignored, keeping a connection around until it times out, and
thus has the opposite effect of what was intended (which is to make the
system more robust to DoS attacks).
you don't want this (and the documentation explains why), but if you
use ipfw as an as-needed casual filter as needed which normally runs as
'allow all' then having the kernel and /sbin/ipfw get out of sync is a
*MAJOR* pain in the behind.
PR: 4141
Submitted by: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@mail.clinet.fi>
potential problems with other automatic-reply ICMPs, but some of them may
depend on broadcast/multicast to operate. (This code can simply be
moved to the `reflect' label to generalize it.)
socket addresses in mbufs. (Socket buffers are the one exception.) A number
of kernel APIs needed to get fixed in order to make this happen. Also,
fix three protocol families which kept PCBs in mbufs to not malloc them
instead. Delete some old compatibility cruft while we're at it, and add
some new routines in the in_cksum family.
accommodate the expanded name, the ICMP types bitmap has been
reduced from 256 bits to 32.
A recompile of kernel and user level ipfw is required.
To be merged into 2.2 after a brief period in -current.
PR: bin/4209
Reviewed by: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
be dropped when it has an unusual traffic pattern. For full details
as well as a test case that demonstrates the failure, see the
referenced PR.
Under certain circumstances involving the persist state, it is
possible for the receive side's tp->rcv_nxt to advance beyond its
tp->rcv_adv. This causes (tp->rcv_adv - tp->rcv_nxt) to become
negative. However, in the code affected by this fix, that difference
was interpreted as an unsigned number by max(). Since it was
negative, it was taken as a huge unsigned number. The effect was
to cause the receiver to believe that its receive window had negative
size, thereby rejecting all received segments including ACKs. As
the test case shows, this led to fruitless retransmissions and
eventually to a dropped connection. Even connections using the
loopback interface could be dropped. The fix substitutes the signed
imax() for the unsigned max() function.
PR: closes kern/3998
Reviewed by: davidg, fenner, wollman
these are quite extensive additions to the ipfw code.
they include a change to the API because the old method was
broken, but the user view is kept the same.
The new code allows a particular match to skip forward to a particular
line number, so that blocks of rules can be
used without checking all the intervening rules.
There are also many more ways of rejecting
connections especially TCP related, and
many many more ...
see the man page for a complete description.
