From 282f23c6ee343126156dd41218b22ece96d747e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:13:05 +0200 Subject: tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2 Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind Reset attack using RST bit. Idea is to validate incoming RST sequence, to match RCV.NXT value, instead of previouly accepted window : (RCV.NXT <= SEG.SEQ < RCV.NXT+RCV.WND) If sequence is in window but not an exact match, send a "challenge ACK", so that the other part can resend an RST with the appropriate sequence. Add a new sysctl, tcp_challenge_ack_limit, to limit number of challenge ACK sent per second. Add a new SNMP counter to count number of challenge acks sent. (netstat -s | grep TCPChallengeACK) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/networking') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index e20c17a..e1e0215 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -565,6 +565,11 @@ tcp_limit_output_bytes - INTEGER reduce the size of individual GSO packet (64KB being the max) Default: 131072 +tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER + Limits number of Challenge ACK sent per second, as recommended + in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks) + Default: 100 + UDP variables: udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max -- cgit v1.1