From 46f5abb0acd3f10999428ee20c1e087c0e96ed06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chuck Lever Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 13:22:52 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] rpc.statd: Bind downcall socket to loopback address In the past, rpc.statd posted SM_NOTIFY requests using the same socket it used for sending downcalls to the kernel. To receive replies from remote hosts, the socket was bound to INADDR_ANY. With commit f113db52 "Remove notify functionality from statd in favour of sm-notify" (Mar 20, 2007), the downcall socket is no longer used for sending requests to remote hosts. However, the downcall socket is still bound to INADDR_ANY. Thus a remote host can inject data on this socket since it is an unconnected UDP socket listening for RPC replies. Thanks to f113db52, the port number of this socket is no longer controlled by a command line option, making it difficult to firewall. We have demonstrated that data injection on this socket can result in a DoS by causing rpc.statd to consume CPU and log bandwidth, but so far we have not found a breach. To prevent unwanted data injection, bind this socket to the loopback address. BugLink: https://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177 Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson --- utils/statd/rmtcall.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/utils/statd/rmtcall.c b/utils/statd/rmtcall.c index 0e52fe2..4ecb03c 100644 --- a/utils/statd/rmtcall.c +++ b/utils/statd/rmtcall.c @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ statd_get_socket(void) memset(&sin, 0, sizeof(sin)); sin.sin_family = AF_INET; - sin.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY; + sin.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK); if (bindresvport(sockfd, &sin) < 0) { xlog(D_GENERAL, "%s: can't bind to reserved port", -- 2.39.5