Advisory 14/2004: Linux 2.x smbfs multiple remote vulnerabilities
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-= Security Advisory =-
Advisory: Linux 2.x smbfs multiple remote vulnerabilities
Release Date: 2004/11/17
Last Modified: 2004/11/17
Author: Stefan Esser [s.esser@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Application: Linux 2.4 <= 2.4.27
Linux 2.6 <= 2.6.9
Severity: Several vulnerabilities within smbfs allow
crashing the kernel or leaking kernel memory
with the help of the smb server
Risk: Moderately Critical
Vendor Status: Vendor has released a bugfixed version.
Reference: http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/142004.html
Overview:
Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch
by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers
across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification
compliance.
During an audit of the smb filesystem implementation within Linux
several vulnerabilities were discovered ranging from out of bounds
read accesses to kernel level buffer overflows.
To exploit any of these vulnerabilities an attacker needs control
over the answers of the connected smb server. This could be achieved
by man in the middle attacks or by taking over the smb server with
f.e. the recently disclosed vulnerability in Samba 3.x
While any of these vulnerabilities can be easily used as remote
denial of service exploits against Linux systems, it is unclear if
it is possible for a skilled local or remote attacker to use any of
the possible bufferoverflows for arbitrary code execution in kernel
space.
Details:
[ 01 - smb_proc_read(X) malicious data count overflow ]
Affected Kernels: 2.4
When receiving the answer to a read(X) request the Linux 2.4 kernel
trusts the returned data count and copies exactly that amound of
bytes into the output buffer. This means any call to the read
syscall on a smb filesystem could result in an overflow withing
kernel memory if the connected smb server returns more data than
requested. While this is a trivial to exploit DOS vulnerability
it is unclear if it can be used by a skilled attacker to execute
arbitrary code.
[ 02 - smb_proc_readX malicious data offset information leak ]
Affected Kernels: 2.4
When receiving the answer to a readX request the Linux 2.4 kernel
does not properly bounds check the supplied data offset. The check
in place can fail because of a signedness issue. This means that
a local attacker can leak kernel memory simply by issuing the read
syscall on a smb filesystem when the connected server returns a
data offset from outside the packet. This can of course also lead
to a kernel crash when unallocated memory is accessed.
[ 03 - smb_receive_trans2 defragmentation overflow ]
Affected Kernels: 2.4
At the end of the TRANS2 defragmentation process the complete
packet is moved to another place if a certain condition is true.
In combination with [07] and the fact that the counters are not
bounds checked befory coyping the data this can result in a
kernel memory overflow.
[ 04 - smb_proc_readX_data malicious data offset DOS ]
Affected Kernels: 2.6
The server supplied data offset is decremented by the header size
and then used as offset within the packet. While the supplied
offset is checked against an upper bound it may have underflowed
and therefore point outside the allocated memory. Any access to
that memory could result in a crash.
[ 05 - smb_receive_trans2 malicious parm/data offset info leak/DOS ]
Affected Kernels: 2.4, 2.6
Both versions of the kernel do not properly bounds check the
server supplied packet based offset of the parameters/data sent.
This results in smbfs copying data from memory outside the received
smb fragment into the receiving buffer. This can leak kernel memory
to the calling function or result in a DOS because of accesses to
unallocated memory.
[ 06 - smb_recv_trans2 missing fragment information leak ]
Affected Kernels: 2.4, 2.6
The defragmentation process of TRANS2 SMB packets does not properly
initialize the receiving buffer. An attacker may f.e. send several
thousand times the first byte of a packet until the received data
count reaches the expected total and so leakes the rest of the
uninitialised receiving buffer to the calling function.
[ 07 - smb_recv_trans2 fragment resending leads to invalid counters ]
Affected Kernels: 2.4, 2.6
The defragmentation termination condition is that atleast the
expected parameter count and at least the expected data count is
reached. By using the fragment resending technique an attacker
can increase one of those counters to an arbitrary high value.
Proof of Concept:
e-matters is not going to release exploits for any of these
vulnerabilities to the public.
Disclosure Timeline:
25. September 2004 - Made initial contact with the Linux Developers
27. September 2004 - Contacted vendor-sec about this issue
22. October 2004 - Sent the 2nd round of smbfs vulnerabilities to
both parties
27. October 2004 - Sent final patchset for 2.4 and 2.6 kernel
to the developers
11. November 2004 - Linux 2.4.28-rc3 containing the final patchset
was made available by the developers
17. November 2004 - Linux 2.4.28 released
17. November 2004 - Public Disclosure
CVE Information:
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has
assigned the name CAN-2004-0883 to the issues 01-05 and the name
CAN-2004-0949 to the issues 06, 07.
Recommendation:
Anyone using smbfs with Linux should upgrade as soon as possible
to the new kernels.
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Copyright 2004 Stefan Esser. All rights reserved.
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