From f070ef2ac66716357066b683fb0baf55f8191a2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 05:12:05 -0700 Subject: tcp: tcp_fragment() should apply sane memory limits Jonathan Looney reported that a malicious peer can force a sender to fragment its retransmit queue into tiny skbs, inflating memory usage and/or overflow 32bit counters. TCP allows an application to queue up to sk_sndbuf bytes, so we need to give some allowance for non malicious splitting of retransmit queue. A new SNMP counter is added to monitor how many times TCP did not allow to split an skb if the allowance was exceeded. Note that this counter might increase in the case applications use SO_SNDBUF socket option to lower sk_sndbuf. CVE-2019-11478 : tcp_fragment, prevent fragmenting a packet when the socket is already using more than half the allowed space Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: Jonathan Looney Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks Cc: Bruce Curtis Cc: Jonathan Lemon Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/uapi/linux/snmp.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/snmp.h') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/snmp.h b/include/uapi/linux/snmp.h index 86dc24a96c90..fd42c1316d3d 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/snmp.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/snmp.h @@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ enum LINUX_MIB_TCPACKCOMPRESSED, /* TCPAckCompressed */ LINUX_MIB_TCPZEROWINDOWDROP, /* TCPZeroWindowDrop */ LINUX_MIB_TCPRCVQDROP, /* TCPRcvQDrop */ + LINUX_MIB_TCPWQUEUETOOBIG, /* TCPWqueueTooBig */ __LINUX_MIB_MAX }; -- cgit v1.2.3