Linux Iptables Avoid IP Spoofing And Bad Addresses Attacks
Spoofing and bad address attack tries to fool the server and try to claim that packets had come from local address/network.
Following IP/netwok address are know to open this kind of attack:
Incoming source IP address is your servers IP address
Bad incoming address from following ranges:
=> 0.0.0.0/8
=> 127.0.0.0/8
=> 10.0.0.0/8
=> 172.16.0.0/12
=> 192.168.0.0/16
=> 192.168.0.0/16
=> 224.0.0.0/3 etc
=> Your own internal server/network ip address/ranges.
Following small shell script tries to prevent this kind of attack:
#!/bin/bash INT_IF="eth1" # connected to internet SERVER_IP="202.54.10.20" # server IP LAN_RANGE="192.168.1.0/24" # your LAN IP range # Add your IP range/IPs here, SPOOF_IPS="0.0.0.0/8 127.0.0.0/8 10.0.0.0/8 172.16.0.0/12 192.168.0.0/16 224.0.0.0/3" IPT="/sbin/iptables" # path to iptables # default action, can be DROP or REJECT ACTION="DROP" # Drop packet that claiming from our own server $IPT -A INPUT -i $INT_IF -s $SERVER_IP -j $ACTION $IPT -A OUTPUT -o $INT_IF -s $SERVER_IP -j $ACTION # Drop packet that claiming from our own internal LAN $IPT -A INPUT -i $INT_IF -s $LAN_RANGE -j $ACTION $IPT -A OUTPUT -o $INT_IF -s $LAN_RANGE -j $ACTION for ip in $SPOOF_IPS do $IPT -A INPUT -i $INT_IF -s $ip -j $ACTION $IPT -A OUTPUT -o $INT_IF -s $ip -j $ACTION done
Save and close the file. Call above script from your own iptables script. Add following line to your /etc/sysctl.conf
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1
This entry enables source address verification which is inbuilt into Linux kernel itself.
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Tags: internal_server, iptables_command, ip_address_ranges, network_ip_address, servers, shell_script, source_ip_address, spoofing, sysctl_command
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You are using Red hat Linux…..????
- iptables -A INPUT -s -j DROP
+ iptables -A INPUT -s $ip -j DROP
Ash,
PHP treated $ip as PHP variable. But now it is fixed.
Appreciate your post.
Address 127.0.0.0/8 is used by server mail or other server like dns or /etc/hosts. And if was blocked the server no running, how solve it?
I think that the following code:,
# Original code - Start
SERVER_IP=”202.54.10.20”
# Add your IP range/IPs here,
SPOOF_IPS=”0.0.0.0/8 127.0.0.0/8 10.0.0.0/8 172.16.0.0/12 192.168.0.0/16 224.0.0.0/3”
iptables -A INPUT -s $SERVER_IP -j DROP
for ip in $SPOOF_IPS
do
iptables -A INPUT -s $ip -j DROP
done
# Original Code - End
, can be re-written as :-
# Suggested Code - Start
PUBLICIF=eth0
SERVER_IP=202.54.10.20
# Add your IP range/IPs here,
SPOOF_IPS=”$SERVER_IP 0.0.0.0/8 127.0.0.0/8 10.0.0.0/8 172.16.0.0/16 192.168.0.0/16 224.0.0.0/3″
for ip in $SPOOF_IPS
do
iptables -A INPUT -i $PUBLICIF -s $ip -j DROP
done
# Suggested code - Stop
Please correct me if I am wrong, but IMHO, if we DROP packets without mentioning the interface then legitimate connections originating from the same server on loopback (lo) will also get dropped.
Thanks.
Sorry. This line:-
SPOOF_IPS=”$SERVER_IP 0.0.0.0/8 127.0.0.0/8 10.0.0.0/8 172.16.0.0/16 192.168.0.0/16
Should not contain $SERVER_IP and should instead be:-
SPOOF_IPS=”0.0.0.0/8 127.0.0.0/8 10.0.0.0/8 172.16.0.0/16 192.168.0.0/16
Yes we need to be remove $SERVER_IP from SPOOF_IPS other wise server also block and we do not have any access to server
Gunjan,
The script has been updated to only filter on public interface. This should fix the issue.
It is impossible to spoof your address if your Linux computer is behind NAT enabled router such as Cisco.
This script is more useful on *Linux based router* as packet filtering is one defense against IP spoofing attacks. The Linux gateway to a network usually performs ingress filtering, which is blocking of packets from outside the network with a source address inside the network. This prevents an outside attacker spoofing the address of an internal machine. Ideally the Linux gateway would also perform egress filtering on outgoing packets, which is blocking of packets from inside the network with a source address that is not inside. This prevents an attacker within the network performing filtering from launching IP spoofing attacks against external machines.
I hope this will help someone.