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Diffstat (limited to 'pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/icmp.go | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/icmp.go b/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/icmp.go index b289e902f..c3f1dd488 100644 --- a/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/icmp.go +++ b/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/icmp.go @@ -72,6 +72,18 @@ func (e *endpoint) handleICMP(r *stack.Route, netHeader buffer.View, vv buffer.V h := header.ICMPv6(v) iph := header.IPv6(netHeader) + // Validate ICMPv6 checksum before processing the packet. + // + // Only the first view in vv is accounted for by h. To account for the + // rest of vv, a shallow copy is made and the first view is removed. + // This copy is used as extra payload during the checksum calculation. + payload := vv + payload.RemoveFirst() + if got, want := h.Checksum(), header.ICMPv6Checksum(h, iph.SourceAddress(), iph.DestinationAddress(), payload); got != want { + received.Invalid.Increment() + return + } + // As per RFC 4861 sections 4.1 - 4.5, 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 7.1.1, 7.1.2 and // 8.1, nodes MUST silently drop NDP packets where the Hop Limit field // in the IPv6 header is not set to 255. |