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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 18:34:52 -0400
From: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@...isiblethingslab.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2023-4809: FreeBSD pf bypass when using IPv6
On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 12:12:31AM +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 07:48:21PM +0200, Enrico Bassetti wrote:
> > A FreeBSD with `pf` as firewall for IPv6 traffic and `scrub` enabled to
> > reassemble IPv6 fragments is vulnerable to an attack that uses a crafted
> > packet posing as IPv6 "atomic" fragment to bypass the rules.
>
> I would like to mention that OpenBSD pf is not affected by the bug.
> As I am the original author of IPv6 fragment reassembly, I have
> just added a regression test to show that our pf drops such packets.
>
> https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/regress/sys/netinet6/frag6/frag6_doubleatomic.py
>
> This behavior seems to be present since 2013 when I added support
> for atomic fragments to pf. The relevant code is in OpenBSD
> pf_walk_header6() in pf.c. There a bunch of sanity checks are done
> for the IPv6 header chain resulting in packet drops. This function
> does not exist in FreeBSD.
>
> https://github.com/openbsd/src/blame/cc53a24ce58eb2212822060db742650de2787ee4/sys/net/pf.c#L7076
FreeBSD should include this in its pf, and probably adopt a bunch more
changes from OpenBSD pf.
--
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
Invisible Things Lab
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