bridge: multicast: add sanity check for query source addresses
authorLinus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Tue, 4 Mar 2014 02:57:35 +0000 (03:57 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:47:17 +0000 (06:47 -0700)
commitdbfc575804afb124cdc27dade949d602c4925a78
tree2bb4c3ab097d561da81b7790261ffad403ca94df
parent37612b6148d8932256188aeb98a412a82e27d078
bridge: multicast: add sanity check for query source addresses

[ Upstream commit 6565b9eeef194afbb3beec80d6dd2447f4091f8c ]

MLD queries are supposed to have an IPv6 link-local source address
according to RFC2710, section 4 and RFC3810, section 5.1.14. This patch
adds a sanity check to ignore such broken MLD queries.

Without this check, such malformed MLD queries can result in a
denial of service: The queries are ignored by any MLD listener
therefore they will not respond with an MLD report. However,
without this patch these malformed MLD queries would enable the
snooping part in the bridge code, potentially shutting down the
according ports towards these hosts for multicast traffic as the
bridge did not learn about these listeners.

Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/bridge/br_multicast.c