swad-core/swad_firewall.c

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// swad_firewall.c: firewall to mitigate denial of service attacks
/*
SWAD (Shared Workspace At a Distance),
is a web platform developed at the University of Granada (Spain),
and used to support university teaching.
This file is part of SWAD core.
Copyright (C) 1999-2023 Antonio Cañas Vargas
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
/*****************************************************************************/
/********************************* Headers ***********************************/
/*****************************************************************************/
#include <stdlib.h> // For exit
#include "swad_database.h"
#include "swad_firewall.h"
#include "swad_firewall_database.h"
/*****************************************************************************/
/****************************** Private prototypes ***************************/
/*****************************************************************************/
static void Fir_WriteHTML (const char *Title,const char *H1);
/*****************************************************************************/
/*************************** Check if IP is banned ***************************/
/*****************************************************************************/
void Fir_CheckFirewallAndExitIfBanned (void)
{
unsigned NumCurrentBans;
/***** Get number of current bans from database *****/
NumCurrentBans = Fir_DB_GetNumBansIP ();
/***** Exit with status 403 if banned *****/
/* RFC 6585 suggests "403 Forbidden", according to
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7447283/proper-http-status-to-return-for-hacking-attempts
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.4.4 */
if (NumCurrentBans)
{
/* Return status 403 Forbidden */
fprintf (stdout,"Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252\n"
"Status: 403\r\n\r\n");
Fir_WriteHTML ("Forbidden","You are temporarily banned");
/* Close database connection and exit */
DB_CloseDBConnection ();
exit (0);
}
}
/*****************************************************************************/
/**************** Check if too many connections from this IP *****************/
/*****************************************************************************/
void Fir_CheckFirewallAndExitIfTooManyRequests (void)
{
unsigned NumClicks;
/***** Get number of clicks from database *****/
NumClicks = Fir_DB_GetNumClicksFromLog ();
/***** Exit with status 429 if too many connections *****/
/* RFC 6585 suggests "429 Too Many Requests", according to
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46664695/whats-the-correct-http-response-code-to-return-for-denial-of-service-dos-atta
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/429 */
if (NumClicks > Fw_MAX_CLICKS_IN_INTERVAL)
{
/* Ban this IP */
Fir_DB_BanIP ();
/* Return status 429 Too Many Requests */
fprintf (stdout,"Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252\n"
"Retry-After: %lu\n"
"Status: 429\r\n\r\n",
(unsigned long) Fw_TIME_BANNED);
Fir_WriteHTML ("Too Many Requests","Please stop that");
/* Close database connection and exit */
DB_CloseDBConnection ();
exit (0);
}
}
/*****************************************************************************/
/********************************* Ban an IP *********************************/
/*****************************************************************************/
static void Fir_WriteHTML (const char *Title,const char *H1)
{
fprintf (stdout,"<html>"
"<head>"
"<title>%s</title>"
"</head>"
"<body>"
"<h1>%s</h1>"
"</body>"
"</html>\n",
Title,H1);
}