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Netfilter Information for VU#222750

Date Notified08/12/2004
Date Modified04/22/2008 06:34:37 PM
Status SummaryVulnerable

Vendor Statement

The Linux kernel TCP/IP implementation has always been verifying the TCP sequence number embedded into the ICMP packet, and Linux end hosts are thus not affected by this vulnerability.

As for non-Linux machines protected by a netfilter/iptables firewall: netfilter/iptables did not implement TCP sequence number (aka window) tracking at all until linux-2.6.9.

However, even in linux >= 2.6.9, the check for RELATED ICMP packets does not verify the tcp sequence number of the encapsulated packet.

Implementation of such a check is scheduled for inclusion into the 2.6.11 linux kernel.

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