ipv6: add option to drop unicast encapsulated in L2 multicast
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Thu, 4 Feb 2016 12:31:19 +0000 (13:31 +0100)
committerStricted <info@stricted.net>
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 05:08:06 +0000 (07:08 +0200)
commit64d611408089eca092d8721743548744db4e7bb6
tree20bf37e75f3ad4af6c250a3c0aed02a10854ad5d
parentc0eba13bbdd24d46b2ef7300d576153ce7c0e05a
ipv6: add option to drop unicast encapsulated in L2 multicast

In order to solve a problem with 802.11, the so-called hole-196 attack,
add an option (sysctl) called "drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast" which, if
enabled, causes the stack to drop IPv6 unicast packets encapsulated in
link-layer multi- or broadcast frames. Such frames can (as an attack)
be created by any member of the same wireless network and transmitted
as valid encrypted frames since the symmetric key for broadcast frames
is shared between all stations.

Reviewed-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
include/linux/ipv6.h
include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h
net/ipv6/addrconf.c
net/ipv6/ip6_input.c