ntpd: respond only to client and symmetric active packets
authorMiroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Mon, 1 Aug 2016 18:24:24 +0000 (20:24 +0200)
committerDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Mon, 1 Aug 2016 18:25:06 +0000 (20:25 +0200)
commit150dc7a2b483b8338a3e185c478b4b23ee884e71
tree623634cfafbb14f5b46f89b8cf63167cdef66bdd
parent6b5abc95969caf270d269ae640bb64e6bf8a7996
ntpd: respond only to client and symmetric active packets

The busybox NTP implementation doesn't check the NTP mode of packets
received on the server port and responds to any packet with the right
size. This includes responses from another NTP server. An attacker can
send a packet with a spoofed source address in order to create an
infinite loop of responses between two busybox NTP servers. Adding
more packets to the loop increases the traffic between the servers
until one of them has a fully loaded CPU and/or network.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
networking/ntpd.c