From: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 10:04:02 +0200
> From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
>
> Yue Cao claims that current host rate limiting of challenge ACKS
> (RFC 5961) could leak enough information to allow a patient attacker
> to hijack TCP sessions. He will soon provide details in an academic
> paper.
>
> This patch increases the default limit from 100 to 1000, and adds
> some randomization so that the attacker can no longer hijack
> sessions without spending a considerable amount of probes.
>
> Based on initial analysis and patch from Linus.
>
> Note that we also have per socket rate limiting, so it is tempting
> to remove the host limit in the future.
>
> v2: randomize the count of challenge acks per second, not the period.
>
> Fixes: 282f23c6ee34 ("tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2")
> Reported-by: Yue Cao <ycao...@ucr.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Eric.
