full-disclosure - dproxy - arbitrary code execution through stack buffer overflow vulnerability

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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:43:31 +0100
From: Alexander Klink <a.klink@...ops.de>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: dproxy - arbitrary code execution through stack
	buffer overflow vulnerability

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||| Security Advisory AKLINK-SA-2007-001 |||
||| CVE-2007-1465 (CVE candidate)        |||
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dproxy - remotely exploitable buffer overflow
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Date released: 20.03.2007
Date reported: 11.03.2007
$Revision: 1.1 $

by Alexander Klink
   Cynops GmbH
   a.klink@...ops.de
   https://www.cynops.de/advisories/CVE-2007-1465.txt
   (S/MIME signed: https://www.cynops.de/advisories/CVE-2007-1465-signed.txt)
   https://www.klink.name/security/aklink-sa-2007-001-dproxy-bufferoverflow.txt
   http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1465

Vendor: Matthew Pratt (Open Source)
Product: dproxy - a small caching DNS server
Website: http://dproxy.sourceforge.net
Vulnerability: buffer overflow
Class: remote
Status: unpatched (author is unresponsive)
Severity: high (arbitrary command execution as root)
Releases known to be affected: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5
Releases known NOT to be affected: dproxy-nexgen

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Overview:

dproxy suffers from a typical buffer overflow condition, which allows
an attacker to overwrite the stack.

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Technical details:

In dproxy.c, the UDP packet buffer, which can be up to 4096 bytes long
is copied into a variable called query_string, which is at most 2048
bytes. As this is done using strcpy, the stack can be overwritten
which leads to arbitrary command execution.

Note that one can easily find out whether dproxy is running
using the fpdns tool (see http://www.rfc.se/fpdns/). dproxy also
seems to be used in a number of WLAN access points / routers, but
the version used there (at least in the Linksys WRT54AG, the Asus
WL500g and the Netgear DG834G) seems to be dproxy-nexgen, which is not
vulnerable to this attack.

Thanks to Dan Kaminsky, who provided me with the interesting statistics
that apparently only 20 out of about 2.000.000 DNS servers he scanned
are using dproxy. So this does not look like a major attack vector.

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Exploit:

A MetaSploit Framework 2.7 exploit module is available from
https://www.cynops.de/downloads/metasploit/dproxy.pm

It has been tested successfully with both a Debian stable and an
Ubuntu system (with randomize_va_space=0).

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Workaround:

Drop packets to the destination UDP port 53 which are larger than
2048 bytes (which is a pretty large DNS query packet anyway).

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Communication:

* 13.03.2007: Author updated on vulnerable versions
* 11.03.2007: First problem report to author

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Solution:

Patch dproxy.c:

- --- dproxy-0.5/dproxy.c 2000-02-03 04:15:35.000000000 +0100
+++ dproxy-0.5.patched/dproxy.c 2007-03-13 13:07:53.000000000 +0100
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
   /* child process only here */
   signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN);

- -  strcpy( query_string, pkt.buf );
+  strncpy( query_string, pkt.buf, sizeof(query_string) );
   decode_domain_name( query_string );
   debug("query: %s\n", query_string );

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Credits:

Alexander Klink, Cynops GmbH (discovery and exploit development, patch)
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-- 
Dipl.-Math. Alexander Klink | IT-Security Engineer |    a.klink@...ops.de
 mobile: +49 (0)178 2121703 |          Cynops GmbH | http://www.cynops.de
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