Hello Michael,

> You will always drop any packets sent to this chain, but you won’t always log them.
> 
> Is this what you intended?

yes. "LOGSPOOFEDMARTIAN" would have been better indeed; currently, we also have things
like "DROPNEWNOTSYN", which is actually just an option for toggling logging of such
packets.

Should I update the misleading "DROP*" variables as well to keep things consistent?

Thanks, and best regards,
Peter Müller


> Hello,
> 
>> On 18 Dec 2021, at 13:48, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>
>> Traffic from and to 127.0.0.0/8 must only appear on the loopback
>> interface, never on any other interface. This ensures offending packets
>> are logged, and the loopback interface cannot be abused for processing
>> traffic from and to any other networks.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org>
>> ---
>> src/initscripts/system/firewall | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
>> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/initscripts/system/firewall b/src/initscripts/system/firewall
>> index cc5baa292..1c62c6e2c 100644
>> --- a/src/initscripts/system/firewall
>> +++ b/src/initscripts/system/firewall
>> @@ -80,6 +80,14 @@ iptables_init() {
>> 	fi
>> 	iptables -A NEWNOTSYN  -j DROP -m comment --comment "DROP_NEWNOTSYN"
>>
>> +	# Log and subsequently drop spoofed packets or "martians", arriving from sources
>> +	# on interfaces where we don't expect them
>> +	iptables -N SPOOFED_MARTIAN
>> +	if [ "$DROPSPOOFEDMARTIAN" == "on" ]; then
> 
> DROP? Shouldn’t the variable be called LOGSPOOFEDMARTIAN?
> 
> You will always drop any packets sent to this chain, but you won’t always log them.
> 
> Is this what you intended?
> 
>> +		iptables -A SPOOFED_MARTIAN  -m limit --limit 10/second -j LOG  --log-prefix "DROP_SPOOFED_MARTIAN "
>> +	fi
>> +	iptables -A SPOOFED_MARTIAN -j DROP -m comment --comment "DROP_SPOOFED_MARTIAN"
>> +
>> 	# Chain to contain all the rules relating to bad TCP flags
>> 	iptables -N BADTCP
>>
>> @@ -177,14 +185,18 @@ iptables_init() {
>> 	iptables -A INPUT -j ICMPINPUT
>> 	iptables -A ICMPINPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT
>>
>> -	# Accept everything on loopback
>> +	# Accept everything on loopback if source/destination is loopback space...
>> 	iptables -N LOOPBACK
>> -	iptables -A LOOPBACK -i lo -j ACCEPT
>> -	iptables -A LOOPBACK -o lo -j ACCEPT
>> +	iptables -A LOOPBACK -i lo -s 127.0.0.0/8 -j ACCEPT
>> +	iptables -A LOOPBACK -o lo -d 127.0.0.0/8 -j ACCEPT
>> +
>> +	# ... and drop everything else on the loopback interface, since no other traffic should appear there
>> +	iptables -A LOOPBACK -i lo -j SPOOFED_MARTIAN
>> +	iptables -A LOOPBACK -o lo -j SPOOFED_MARTIAN
>>
>> -	# Filter all packets with loopback addresses on non-loopback interfaces.
>> -	iptables -A LOOPBACK -s 127.0.0.0/8 -j DROP
>> -	iptables -A LOOPBACK -d 127.0.0.0/8 -j DROP
>> +	# Filter all packets with loopback addresses on non-loopback interfaces (spoofed)
>> +	iptables -A LOOPBACK -s 127.0.0.0/8 -j SPOOFED_MARTIAN
>> +	iptables -A LOOPBACK -d 127.0.0.0/8 -j SPOOFED_MARTIAN
>>
>> 	for i in INPUT FORWARD OUTPUT; do
>> 		iptables -A ${i} -j LOOPBACK
>> -- 
>> 2.26.2
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