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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:12:41 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: John Haxby <john.haxby@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- kernel: tcp: drop SYN+FIN messages
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On 06/01/2012 10:35 AM, John Haxby wrote:
> I am inclined to think that we should have a separate CVE for the
> kernel here. Unless I'm mistaken, a packet with SYN+FIN has no
> legitimate business being in the Internet any more than the old
> SYN+RST has. It's security hardening in that firewall rules to
> discard packets with odd combinations of flags are often deployed
> by people setting up "serious" firewalls but most machines out
> there, whether or not they have iptables set up, don't go to those
> lengths. Certainly none of the machines I have access to that have
> "out of the box" iptables configurations would appear to defend
> against SYN+FIN for open ports.
In my limited testing with iptables on RHEL 6.2 it appears that
- --state NEW works properly, and won't allow SYN+FIN to create
connections (I used hping3 and the SYN+FIN Packets were blocked).
So the default ruleset:
- -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
- -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j DROP
- -A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
should work, so you could do you clever --syn bits first and then have
that set to protect stuff from SYN+FIN.
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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