linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v2 09/25] tcp: authopt: Disable via sysctl by default

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Date:   Fri, 5 Nov 2021 10:50:01 +0200
From:   Leonard Crestez <cdleonard@...il.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.co.jp>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@...sta.com>,
        Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>,
        Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@...le.com>,
        Ivan Delalande <colona@...sta.com>,
        Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/25] tcp: authopt: Disable via sysctl by default

On 11/3/21 4:39 AM, David Ahern wrote:
> On 11/1/21 10:34 AM, Leonard Crestez wrote:
>> diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
>> index 97eb54774924..cc34de6e4817 100644
>> --- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
>> +++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
>> @@ -17,10 +17,11 @@
>>   #include <net/udp.h>
>>   #include <net/cipso_ipv4.h>
>>   #include <net/ping.h>
>>   #include <net/protocol.h>
>>   #include <net/netevent.h>
>> +#include <net/tcp_authopt.h>
>>   
>>   static int two = 2;
>>   static int three __maybe_unused = 3;
>>   static int four = 4;
>>   static int thousand = 1000;
>> @@ -583,10 +584,19 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_table[] = {
>>   		.mode		= 0644,
>>   		.proc_handler	= proc_douintvec_minmax,
>>   		.extra1		= &sysctl_fib_sync_mem_min,
>>   		.extra2		= &sysctl_fib_sync_mem_max,
>>   	},
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_TCP_AUTHOPT
>> +	{
>> +		.procname	= "tcp_authopt",
>> +		.data		= &sysctl_tcp_authopt,
>> +		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
>> +		.mode		= 0644,
>> +		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
> 
> Just add it to the namespace set, and this could be a u8 (try to plug a
> hole if possible) with min/max specified:
> 
>                  .maxlen         = sizeof(u8),
>                  .mode           = 0644,
>                  .extra1         = SYSCTL_ZERO,
>                  .extra2         = SYSCTL_ONE
> 
> 
> see icmp_echo_enable_probe as an example. And if you are not going to
> clean up when toggled off, you need a handler that tells the user it can
> not be disabled by erroring out on attempts to disable it.

This is deliberately per-system because the goal is to avoid possible 
local privilege escalations by reducing the attack surface. Even the 
smallest flaw could be exploited by a malicious application establishing 
an authenticated connection on loopback.

Applications running in containers frequently have full access to 
sysctls so making this per-namespace would defeat the original purpose. 
I can't think of any reason to prevent using this feature at the 
namespace level, it has no interesting effects outside TCP connections 
for which it is enabled.

I also believe that as similar sysctl would be useful for TCP-MD5.

You're right about adding additional prints.

--
Regards,
Leonard