comparison default_options.h @ 1790:42745af83b7d

Introduce extra delay before closing unauthenticated sessions To make it harder for attackers, introduce a delay to keep an unauthenticated session open a bit longer, thus blocking a connection slot until after the delay. Without this, while there is a limit on the amount of attempts an attacker can make at the same time (MAX_UNAUTH_PER_IP), the time taken by dropbear to handle one attempt is still short and thus for each of the allowed parallel attempts many attempts can be chained one after the other. The attempt rate is then: "MAX_UNAUTH_PER_IP / <process time of one attempt>". With the delay, this rate becomes: "MAX_UNAUTH_PER_IP / UNAUTH_CLOSE_DELAY".
author Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
date Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:53:04 +0100
parents c0f12eaf95c9
children ed20d805b332
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255 /* Default maximum number of failed authentication tries (server option) */ 255 /* Default maximum number of failed authentication tries (server option) */
256 /* -T server option overrides */ 256 /* -T server option overrides */
257 #define MAX_AUTH_TRIES 10 257 #define MAX_AUTH_TRIES 10
258 258
259 /* Delay introduced before closing an unauthenticated session (seconds) */
260 #define UNAUTH_CLOSE_DELAY 30
261
259 /* The default file to store the daemon's process ID, for shutdown 262 /* The default file to store the daemon's process ID, for shutdown
260 scripts etc. This can be overridden with the -P flag */ 263 scripts etc. This can be overridden with the -P flag */
261 #define DROPBEAR_PIDFILE "/var/run/dropbear.pid" 264 #define DROPBEAR_PIDFILE "/var/run/dropbear.pid"
262 265
263 /* The command to invoke for xauth when using X11 forwarding. 266 /* The command to invoke for xauth when using X11 forwarding.