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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2016-02-04 13:31:19 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-02-11 04:27:36 -0500 |
| commit | abbc30436d39dfed8ebfca338d253f211ac7b094 (patch) | |
| tree | d7ce58e0300818d2effa7a7bd03bd5667f0d9d36 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | 97daf331455077645ae1f13438bebd3d1a2e94ee (diff) | |
| download | linux-abbc30436d39dfed8ebfca338d253f211ac7b094.tar.bz2 | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index a53bbfaff1c7..e0e7350a4e6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -1674,6 +1674,12 @@ stable_secret - IPv6 address By default the stable secret is unset. +drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN + Drop any unicast IPv6 packets that are received in link-layer + multicast (or broadcast) frames. + + By default this is turned off. + icmp/*: ratelimit - INTEGER Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets. |