kern/73517: pfil_hooks (ipfw,pf etc) and ipsec processing order for
outgoing packets is wrong
Ari Suutari
ari at suutari.iki.fi
Thu Nov 4 01:20:27 PST 2004
>Number: 73517
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: pfil_hooks (ipfw,pf etc) and ipsec processing order for outgoing packets is wrong
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Nov 04 09:20:26 GMT 2004
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ari Suutari
>Release: FreeBSD 5.3-RC2 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD mato.suutari.iki.fi 5.3-RC2 FreeBSD 5.3-RC2 #13: Wed Nov 3 17:47:15 EET 2004 ari at mato.suutari.iki.fi:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MATO i386
>Description:
When using IPSEC_FILTERGIF kernel option, the processing order of ipsec and
ipfw (pfil_hook) is not correct for outgoing packets.
Currently, ipsec processing is done first regardsless of IPSEC_FILTERGIF,
which makes packets to go through without firewall inspection.
This might be a security problem for someone, but at least it
breaks stateful rule handling.
My test setup is (all freebsd 5.3-rc1 machines):
freebsd laptop <-> ipsec tunnel <->freebsd server
When server sends packet to laptop, it now goes like this:
ip_output -> ipsec -> ipfw -> network
It should go like this:
ip_output -> ipfw -> ipsec -> ipfw -> network
>How-To-Repeat:
Compiler kernel with ipsec and IPSEC_FILTERGIF options. Create
ipsec policy, which uses esp between two machines. Add firewall
rules like
ipfw add count esp from a to b
ipfw add count esp from b to a
ipfw add count icmp from a to b
ipfw add count icmp from b to a
Start pinging from a to b. You'll notice that only one
of the icmp counters increases.
>Fix:
I think that this could be fixed by just moving/adding pfil_hook
processing in ip_output before ipsec processing when IPSEC_FILTERGIF
is enabled.
I received example patch from Mr. Joost Bekkers (http://jodocus.org/ipsec-pfil.diff ),
but it doesn't fully work for kame IPSEC (kame ipsec seems to require having
pfil_hooks both before ipsec and after it, FAST_IPSEC queues the packet back
to ip_output so it works correctly with proposed fix).
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