Bug #2073

APIPA broadcasts forwarded by route-to

Added by Chris Buechler over 1 year ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

Status:New Start date:01/05/2012
Priority:Normal Due date:
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Category:Operating System
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Affected version:All Affected Architecture:

Description

If there is a host with an APIPA IP sending broadcasts that match a route-to rule, the traffic gets forwarded by route-to. antispoof should block that scenario, since that IP subnet isn't defined on the source interface. We should change route-to should never forward anything destined to a broadcast MAC address to prevent such scenarios.

To work around, just add a rule to block APIPA, 169.254.0.0/16. Or ideally don't use overly permissive rulesets, the default rules will not permit this to happen.

History

#1 Updated by Chris Buechler about 1 year ago

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