Hi, As I just found, mac80211 is susceptible to an attack where the attacker simply sends frames it wants us to see unencrypted instead of bothering with replay attacks or such. This could possibly cause us to reply to these frames or worse yet, a mac80211 based AP could encrypt the frames and broadcast them if the attacker uses a MAC address of another station that is properly associated! The reason is that ieee80211_rx_h_drop_unencrypted() drops unencrypted frames, but only if "sdata->drop_unencrypted" is set which never happens! I'd offer the patch below but that's hardly complete. And then what about wext's encode and IW_ENCODE_RESTRICTED? Isn't that exactly the same thing? ieee80211 treats it that way and I can't find docs other than this paragraph from iwconfig's man page The security mode may be open or restricted, and its meaning depends on the card used. With most cards, in open mode no authentication is used and the card may also accept non- encrypted sessions, whereas in restricted mode only encrypted sessions are accepted and the card will use authentication if available. And you can hardly claim that this defines the semantics of the flag well enough to be able to implement it. Especially since it uses keywords defined by 802.11 with a totally different meaning! I love you Jean, thanks for creating the most undefined API I ever saw. Even with this patch, however, we still don't have drop_unencrypted set with plain WEP networks. For IBSS it defaults to the PRIVACY bit in the BSS information, but for managed networks this is not done. I find this rather disconcerting. Should we set this to the value of the privacy bit after we join a BSS like we do for the IBSS case? The patch below is necessary for wpa_supplicant to be able to set the drop_unencrypted setting, but I'm not convinced it actually needs to be able to set it. Can't the kernel just do a sane default? Considering the AP case, on the other hand, hostapd will need to be able to set the setting since we don't actually look into the beacon it tells us to transmit. But hostapd on the other hand doesn't even invoke the iwauth ioctl! I have to admit to being rather confused. johannes --- everything.orig/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c 2007-11-21 23:34:10.895859212 +0100 +++ everything/net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c 2007-11-21 23:34:37.295855632 +0100 @@ -928,6 +928,9 @@ static int ieee80211_ioctl_siwauth(struc case IW_AUTH_RX_UNENCRYPTED_EAPOL: case IW_AUTH_KEY_MGMT: break; + case IW_AUTH_DROP_UNENCRYPTED: + sdata->drop_unencrypted = !!data->value; + break; case IW_AUTH_PRIVACY_INVOKED: if (sdata->type != IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_STA) ret = -EINVAL; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
