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Commit abbc3043 authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg Committed by David S. Miller
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ipv6: add option to drop unicast encapsulated in L2 multicast



In order to solve a problem with 802.11, the so-called hole-196 attack,
add an option (sysctl) called "drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast" which, if
enabled, causes the stack to drop IPv6 unicast packets encapsulated in
link-layer multi- or broadcast frames. Such frames can (as an attack)
be created by any member of the same wireless network and transmitted
as valid encrypted frames since the symmetric key for broadcast frames
is shared between all stations.

Reviewed-by: default avatarJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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