A thread might check out a new IKE_SA via checkout_new() or
checkout_by_config() and start initiating it while the daemon is
terminating and the IKE_SA manager is flushed by the main thread.
That SA is not tracked yet so the main thread is not waiting for it and
the other thread is able to check it in and creating an entry after flush()
already terminated causing a memory leak.
Fixes#1348.
Running or undoing start actions might require enumerating IKE_SAs,
which in turn might have to enumerate peer configs concurrently, which
requires acquiring a read lock. So if we keep holding the write lock while
enumerating the SAs we provoke a deadlock.
By preventing other threads from acquiring the write lock while handling
actions, and thus preventing the modification of the configs, we largely
maintain the current synchronous behavior. This way we also don't need to
acquire additional refs for config objects as they won't get modified/removed.
Fixes#1185.
This allows e.g. modified versions of xl2tpd to set the mark in
situations where two clients are using the same source port behind the
same NAT, which CONNMARK can't restore properly as only one conntrack entry
will exist with the mark set to that of the client that sent the last packet.
Fixes#1230.
By settings a matchmask that covers the complete rule we ensure that the
correct rule is deleted (i.e. matches and targets with potentially different
marks are also compared).
Since data after the passed pointer is actually dereferenced when
comparing we definitely have to pass an array that is at least as long as
the ipt_entry.
Fixes#1229.
We do these checks after the SA is fully established.
When establishing an SA the responder is always able to install the
CHILD_SA created with the IKE_SA before the initiator can do so.
During make-before-break reauthentication this could cause traffic sent
by the responder to get dropped if the installation of the SA on the
initiator is delayed e.g. by OCSP/CRL checks.
In particular, if the OCSP/CRL URIs are reachable via IPsec tunnel (e.g.
with rightsubnet=0.0.0.0/0) the initiator is unable to reach them during
make-before-break reauthentication as it wouldn't be able to decrypt the
response that the responder sends using the new CHILD_SA.
By delaying the revocation checks until the make-before-break
reauthentication is completed we avoid the problems described above.
Since this only affects reauthentication, not the original IKE_SA, and the
delay until the checks are performed is usually not that long this
doesn't impose much of a reduction in the overall security.
On failure the SA is deleted and reestablished as configured. The task
is activated after the REAUTH_COMPLETE task so a make-before-break reauth
is completed before the new SA might get torn down.
This also restores the charon.signature_authentication_constraints
functionality, that is, if no explicit IKE signature schemes are
configured we apply all regular signature constraints as IKE constraints.
An attacker could blindly send a message with invalid nonce data (or none
at all) to DoS an initiator if we just destroy the SA. To prevent this we
ignore the message and wait for the one by the correct responder.
If the SA got redirected this would otherwise cause a reauthentication with
the original gateway. Reestablishing the SA to the original gateway, if e.g.
the new gateway is not reachable makes sense though.
Tobias Brunner