draft-fujiwara-dnsop-fragment-attack-01:
> 3. Current status
>
> [Brandt2018] showed that Linux version 3.13 and older versions are
> vulnerable to crafted ICMP fragmentation needed and DF set packet and
> off-path attackers can set some of authoritative servers' path MTU
> size to 296.
>
> The author tested Linux version 2.6.32, 4.18.20 and FreeBSD 12.0.
> Linux 2.6.32 accepts crafted "ICMP Need Fragmentation and DF set"
> packet and path MTU decreased to 552. Linux 2.6.32, Linux 4.18.20
> and FreeBSD 12.0 accept crafted "ICMPv6 Packet Too Big" packet and
> path MTU decreased to 1280.
>
> Linux version 4.18.20 may ignore crafted ICMP packet.
I confirmed that Linux 4.18 (Ubuntu 18.10) accepts crafted ICMP
on "plain" UDP socket. And if sockopt IP_PMTUDISC_DONT is set to sockets
(many DNS implements do this) sender host generates fragmented packets
caused by crafted ICMP.
Determining whether a DNS implementation on Linux accepts
crafted ICMPv4 or not is somewhat confusing and need to investigate
with caution:
- Latest Linux seems to still accept crafted ICMPv4 by default.
Linux 3.15 introduced a new socket option IP_PMTUDISC_OMIT
which makes sockets ignore PMTU information and send packet with DF=0.
With this option sending socket never honor PMTU information and
fragmentation
is done if and only if the packet size exceeds outgoing interface MTU.
- Some DNS implementation (BIND 9.9.10 / Unbound 1.5.0 and later) utilize
IP_PMTUDISC_OMIT option if available. So these DNS implementation on
Linux 3.15 (or later)
won't accept crafted ICMP.
(I submitted a patch to NSD for enabling this feature.
https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/bugs-script/show_bug.cgi?id=4235 )
- Some Linux distribution is based on older version (like Linux 3.10)
but has IP_PMTUDISC_OMIT feature by backporting.
I found that IP_PMTUDISC_OMIT feature is backported to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7
(it's Linux 3.10 based) but they didn't backport corresponding macro
definition to glibc header.
So BIND9's / Unbound's IP_PMTUDISC_OMIT feature on current RHEL7
won't be enabled
regardless of kernel feature.
(Bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1684874 )
Regards,
--
Daisuke Higashi
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