bugtraq - Widnows XP TCP/IP Stack Security Issue (ARP for non RFC 1918 addresses)

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Message-Id: <201004250115.o3P1FuxY024467@www3.securityfocus.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:15:56 -0600
From: wborskey@...il.com
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Widnows XP TCP/IP Stack Security Issue (ARP for non RFC 1918
 addresses)

After putting the port my WAP is plugged into in a bridge group--cisco 2600--and rejecting traffic at layer two from an XP machine, I noticed some odd and insecure behavior. At this point I can only assume what is causing it. 

After adding the MAC of a machine with active tcp/ip sockets to public ip addresses an odd thing happened. Instead of sending out DNS requests to resolve the hosts, the XP machine started sending ARP requests but ARP requests for ip public addresses! For example it sent out ARP requests like "Who has 74.125.159.103". But not just once!

The XP machine was using a self assigned 169.254. 
Because the bridge group discard rule was discarding their traffic at layer 2. But somehow, I guess because it had open sockets to public IP addresses, it tried to ARP for those addresses to discover what network it was on an where to send the packets.

This is extremely dangerous for obvious reasons.