full-disclosure - Re: [FD] 0-day Denial of Service in IPsec-Tools

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Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 17:29:47 -0400
From: christos@...las.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: Javantea <jvoss@...sci.com>, fulldisclosure@...lists.org
Subject: Re: [FD] 0-day Denial of Service in IPsec-Tools

On May 19,  1:32pm, jvoss@...sci.com (Javantea) wrote:
-- Subject: [FD] 0-day Denial of Service in IPsec-Tools

| Denial of Service in IPsec-Tools
| Vulnerability Report
| May 19, 2015
| 
| Product:  IPsec-Tools
| Version: 0.8.2
| Website:  http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net/
| CVSS Score: 7.8 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
| 
| IPsec-Tools is vulnerable to a 0-day exploit that I made available yesterday. It is a null dereference crash in racoon in gssapi.c. It requires HAVE_GSSAPI to be set, which is a configuration option. The impact is a denial of service against the IKE daemon. Because IPsec is critical infrastructure and this attack requires two UDP packets, it deserves a medium rating. This denial of service violates the premise that IPsec's security is built upon. More information about the impact can be found on my website linked below.
| 
| If you're running IPsec-Tools, replace it sensibly as soon as possible. The reason this exploit is being released without patch on full disclosure is because the authors have apparently abandoned the software.
| 
| The vulnerability:
| 
| racoon/gssapi.c:205:static int gssapi_init(struct ph1handle *iph1)
| 
| 	if (iph1->rmconf->proposal->gssid != NULL) {
| 
| The exploit is available on my website:
| https://www.altsci.com/ipsec/ipsec-tools-sa.html

The fix is trivial and does not seem to affect the preshared key
authentication method. Looks to me like a simple DoS attack that
does not have any additional impact.

christos

--- gssapi.c	9 Sep 2006 16:22:09 -0000	1.4
+++ gssapi.c	19 May 2015 15:16:00 -0000	1.6
@@ -192,6 +192,11 @@
 	gss_name_t princ, canon_princ;
 	OM_uint32 maj_stat, min_stat;
 
+	if (iph1->rmconf == NULL) {
+		plog(LLV_ERROR, LOCATION, NULL, "no remote config\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	gps = racoon_calloc(1, sizeof (struct gssapi_ph1_state));
 	if (gps == NULL) {
 		plog(LLV_ERROR, LOCATION, NULL, "racoon_calloc failed\n");

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