full-disclosure - Denial of service in 3COM 812 DSL routers

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

From: idoru at videosoft.net.uy (David F. Madrid)
Subject: Denial of service in 3COM 812 DSL routers

Product affected : 3COM 812 OfficeConnect DSL routers

Firware affected :

1.1.9

2.0 ?

Description :

OfficeConnect is a router widely used in the world . Just in Spain ,
Telefonica buy more than 100000 812 routers to 3COM until 2001 to
deploy them in his ADSL lines .

The router can be rebooted due to a flaw in its web administration
interface . As no athentication is needed , every LAN user can cause
a crash and reboot of the router , stoping internet connection for
one or two minutes . A remote user can exploit it if the web interface
is available in the WAN interface of the router or if he can persuade
a user to click on a link in a forum or to visit a webpage ( as
you can always access the web interface if the connection is local
initiated , as is from the web browser ) .

I haven't tested this in another 812 router , but on mine the
buffer that holds the complete HTTP request is of 512 bytes
and is not checked if the lengh of the request is bigger that
this limit . So to reboot the router you just have to connect
to the web interface and send 512 bytes or more

perl -e 'print "A"x512;print "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"' | netcat -v -n 127.0.0.1 80

You can read this advisory in Spanish in

http://nautopia.coolfreepages.com/vulnerabilidades/3com812_Web_DOS.htm

Regards ,

David F. Madrid ,
Madrid , Spain