Hi All,
I am facing problems with inbound FTP.I have tried to analyze the code
in ippr_ftp_process() and appr_fixseqack() and have failed to understand
how passive ftp would work. Here is the description of my analysis.
In case of inbound FTP, control command
"Response: 227 Entering Passive Mode (x1,x2,x3,x4,p1,p2)"
would be sent from the server to the client. i.e from LAN to WAN. The
proxy would intercept the above command and modify is as below
"Response: 227 Entering Passive Mode (y1,y2,y3,y4,p1,p2)"
Let us say, that during the process of modifying the IP address in the
control command above it has injected 3 bytes into the TCP stream. This
will cause the aps_seqmin and aps_seqoff to be set by the
appr_fixseqack() function which is called right after
ippr_ftp_process(). The code snippet which does this
is given below.
[...]
if (inc && (seq1 > aps->aps_seqmin[!sel])) {
aps->aps_seqmin[sel] = seq1 + nlen - 1;
aps->aps_seqoff[sel] = aps->aps_seqoff[sel] + inc;
if (ipf_proxy_debug > 7)
printf("proxy seq set %d at %x to %d + %d\n",
sel, aps->aps_seqmin[sel],
aps->aps_seqoff[sel], inc);
}
[...]
At this point aps_ackmin and aps_ackoff are 0.
Now, say the client responds to this packet with an ack= seq1 + nlen.
The ippr_ftp_process() function is dropping this packet. The code
diagnoses this packet
as being invalid because of the following reasons.
In this case rv=0 (because its a redirect rule and rv=0 indicates
inbound processing). The evaluation of seqoff and ackoff will result in
3 and 0 respectively. since
ackoff is 0. The following checks fail in ippr_ftp_process()
[....]
if (ackoff == 0) {
if (t->ftps_seq[0] == thack)
ok = 1;
else if (t->ftps_seq[1] == thack) {
t->ftps_seq[0] = thack;
ok = 1;
}
[....]
The packet eventually gets dropped.
I have a feeling that this code is not able to handle inbound passive
FTP scenarios. All other scenarios work fine (outbound active, outbound
passive,inbound active).
Can someone enlighten me if i am missing something here. I can provide
the ethereal traces and the console debug output with ippr_ftp_debug
and ipf_proxy_debug set, if required.
Thanks in advance for any help
regards
samba
