Snort Back Orifice Preprocessor Remote Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:15131

Info

Snort Back Orifice Preprocessor Remote Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 15131
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Oct 18 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Oct 18 2005 12:00AM
Credit: Neel Mehta of the ISS X-Force is credited with the discovery of this issue.
Vulnerable: Snort Project Snort 2.4.2
Snort Project Snort 2.4.1
Snort Project Snort 2.4 .0
Nortel Networks Threat Protection System Intrusion Sensor 4.1
Nortel Networks Threat Protection System Defense Center 4.1
Not Vulnerable: Snort Project Snort 2.4.3

Discussion

Snort Back Orifice Preprocessor Remote Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Snort is susceptible to a remote buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to securely copy network-derived data into sensitive process buffers. The specific issue exists in the Back Orifice preprocessor.

An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user that activated the vulnerable application. This may facilitate unauthorized access or privilege escalation.

Due to the nature of this issue, attackers may exploit it by sending a single UDP packet with a potentially spoofed source address to an arbitrary destination address and port. As long as the application can sniff the packet, it may be exploited. These aspects of this issue may aid attackers in bypassing firewalls in order to compromise a wider number of computers.

Reportedly, this issue is difficult to reliably exploit across differing operating systems and compiler versions. Failed exploit attempts likely result in crashing the application, thereby disabling detection of other attacks.

Snort versions 2.4.0 through 2.4.2 are affected by this issue. Other versions may also be affected, but this has not been confirmed.

Exploit / POC

Snort Back Orifice Preprocessor Remote Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

A semi-functional proof of concept (snort_bo_ping.pm) has been provided by H D Moore <[email protected]>.

Another proof of concept exploit (THCsnortbo.c) is available from [email protected].

An exploit (snort_bo_overflow_win32.pm) for Windows Snort binaries has been released by Kira. This exploit requires the Metasploit Framework.

An exploit (20051111.snortxp.c) was released by Russell Sanford.

Solution / Fix

Snort Back Orifice Preprocessor Remote Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
Nortel Networks has released Nortel TPS Snort Engine Update (SEU) #6 to address this issue in Threat Protection System Intrusion Sensor/Threat Protection System Defense Center 4.1. Please refer to the attached Nortel Networks advisory for further information.

The vendor has released version 2.4.3 to address this issue:


Snort Project Snort 2.4 .0

Snort Project Snort 2.4.1

Snort Project Snort 2.4.2

Nortel Networks Threat Protection System Intrusion Sensor 4.1

Nortel Networks Threat Protection System Defense Center 4.1

References

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