Bug 843130

Summary:	RFE kernel: net: mitigate blind reset attacks using RST and SYN bits
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise MRG	Reporter:	Petr Matousek <pmatouse>
Component:	realtime-kernel	Assignee:	Clark Williams <williams>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Sommerseth <davids>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	2.2	CC:	bhu, iboverma, jkacur, jkastner, jpirko, lgoncalv, ovasik, williams
Target Milestone:	2.2.2	Keywords:	FutureFeature, Security
Target Release:	2.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Release Note
Doc Text:	* Cause: TCP stack for MRG RT vulnerable to blind-reset attack * Consequence: off-path attacker may inject packets into a TCP stream * Fix: implement RST and SYN components of RFC 5961 * Result: Prevent blind-reset and blind SYN attacks on MRG-RT TCP stack	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	843126	Environment:
Last Closed:	2012-12-04 19:58:31 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	843126
Bug Blocks:	843129

Description Petr Matousek 2012-07-25 16:24:19 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #843126 +++

Description of problem:

RHEL is prone to blind reset attacks.
Blind reset attacks together with mitigations are described in RFC 5691.
Please backport the Linux kernel upstream fixes below.

Upstream fixes
--------------

Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind
Reset attack using RST bit.

Upstream Linux kernel commit:
282f23c6ee343126156dd41218b22ece96d747e3 RFC 5961 3.2 Mitigation

Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind
Reset attack using SYN bit.

Upstream Linux kernel commit:
0c24604b68fc7810d429d6c3657b6f148270e528 RFC 5961 4.2 Mitigation

Followup of commit 0c24604b68fc (tcp: implement RFC 5961 4.2)

Upstream Linux kernel commit:
e371589917011efe6ff8c7dfb4e9e81934ac5855 0c24604b68fc follow up

Comment 2 Beth Uptagrafft 2012-07-25 18:47:25 UTC

Moving this to the next 2.2.x release.  It's too late in our 2.2.0 cycle and will require quite some network testing, as the RFC5961 redefines slightly how to handle some specific RST/SYN situations (per QE).

Comment 3 Clark Williams 2012-11-01 17:19:27 UTC

Cherry-picked above commits for pending 2.2.2 errata

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2012-12-04 19:58:31 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1491.html