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Message-ID: <fd739193-ade8-6f8d-3831-58b8e752eaba@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 15:12:37 +0000
From: Luke Hinds <lhinds@...hat.com>
To: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: opendaylight-advisory: Multiple "expired" flows consume the memory
resource of CONFIG DS
Issue
Multiple "expired" flows consume memory resources of CONFIG DS which
leads to Controller shutdown.
The following issue was discovered and reported by Vaibhav Hemant Dixit.
Summary
Multiple "expired" flows take up the memory resource of CONFIG DATASTORE
which leads to CONTROLLER shutdown.
Affected Services / Software
OpenFlow Plugin and OpenDayLight Controller.
Versions: Nitrogen, Carbon, Boron Robert Varga, Anil Vishnoi -< please
verify versions affected (back to depreciated releases).
Discussion
If multiple different flows with "idle-timeout" and "hard-timeout" are
sent to the Openflow Plugin REST API, the expired flows will eventually
crash the controller once its resource allocations set with the JVM size
are exceeded.
Although the installed flows(with timeout set) are removed from network
(an thus also from controller's operations DS), the expired entries are
still present in CONFIG DS.
The attack can originate both from NORTH or SOUTH. The above description
is for a north bound attack. A south bound attack can originate when an
attacker attempts a flow flooding attack and since flows come with
timeouts, the attack is not successful. However, the attacker will now
be successful in CONTROLLER overflow attack (resource consumption).
Although, the network(actual flow tables) and operational DS are only
(~)1% occupied, the controller requests for resource consumption. This
happens because the installed flows get removed from the network upon
timeout.
Proposed patch
No patches have been made available, as this issue is mitigated by means
of a secure architecture (See Recommended Actions below).
Recommended Actions
Management API’s within OpenDayLight should only ever be deployed within
a segregated private network and never exposed to public networks, this
includes the OpenFlowPlugin. Further protections can be implemented by
deploying a rate limiting proxy (such as OpenRepose, HAProxy, nginx,
mod_ratelimit etc) or web application firewall.
CVE: CVE-2017-1000411
Regards,
Luke Hinds (OpenDayLight Security Manager)
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