Brad Fitzpatrick cbcca9dc15 derp/derpserver: bound the size of unknown frames the server will discard
The per-client receive rate limiter charges at most
minRateLimitTokenBucketSize tokens per frame, on the assumption that any
frame larger than that would fail validation and close the connection.
That held for every known frame type, but not for unknown ones:
handleUnknownFrame discarded exactly the declared length, up to 4 GiB,
and returned nil, keeping the connection open.

A client could therefore send unknown frame types with huge declared
lengths and have the server read the bytes off the socket while being
charged only 64 KiB of tokens per frame, bypassing the operator's
configured per-client rate limit by a factor of about 65,000.

Reject unknown frames whose declared length exceeds the largest frame a
regular client can send today, which makes the limiter's assumption true
for all frame types while still tolerating small, reasonably sized
frames from newer clients. Add a test that the server still tolerates
a small unknown frame and closes the connection on a huge one.

Fixes tailscale/corp#48889
Updates tailscale/corp#40171

Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Change-Id: I3f6a2c9d8e1b4a7f5c0d2e9b8a6f4c1d7e3b5a90
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Tailscale

https://tailscale.com

Private WireGuard® networks made easy

Overview

This repository contains the majority of Tailscale's open source code. Notably, it includes the tailscaled daemon and the tailscale CLI tool. The tailscaled daemon runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and to varying degrees on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The Tailscale iOS and Android apps use this repo's code, but this repo doesn't contain the mobile GUI code.

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