ipv4: add option to drop unicast encapsulated in L2 multicast
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Thu, 4 Feb 2016 12:31:17 +0000 (13:31 +0100)
committerStricted <info@stricted.net>
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 05:08:06 +0000 (07:08 +0200)
commitc0eba13bbdd24d46b2ef7300d576153ce7c0e05a
treeaff485e810081706f19c901e3eefbf472fef07d9
parentc714093bf14f945d3752ef9af750ea1b7ea9a446
ipv4: 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 IPv4 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.

Additionally, enabling this option provides compliance with a SHOULD
clause of RFC 1122.

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/inetdevice.h
net/ipv4/devinet.c
net/ipv4/ip_input.c