Tru64 Malformed TCP Packet Denial Of Service Vulnerability

BID:4011

Info

Tru64 Malformed TCP Packet Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 4011
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 31 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 31 2002 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was independently discovered and reported by Luca Papotti <[email protected]> in July, 2001. Aditionally, this vulnerability was announced by Jason Johns - SAS(IT) <[email protected]> on January 30, 2002.
Vulnerable: Digital Ultrix 4.5
Digital Ultrix 4.4
Digital Ultrix 4.3 a
Digital Ultrix 4.3
Digital Ultrix 4.2
Digital Ultrix 4.1
Digital Ultrix 4.0
Digital Ultrix 3.0
Digital Ultrix 2.2
Digital OSF/1 4.0
- HP HP-UX 11.0
- HP HP-UX 10.20
- IBM AIX 3.0 x
- Sun Solaris 2.6
Digital OSF/1 3.2 G
Digital OSF/1 3.2 F
Digital OSF/1 3.2 DE2
Digital OSF/1 3.2 DE1
Digital OSF/1 3.2 D
Digital OSF/1 3.2 C
Digital OSF/1 3.2 B
Digital OSF/1 3.2
Digital OSF/1 3.0 B
Digital OSF/1 3.0
Digital OSF/1 2.1 B
Digital OSF/1 2.1
Digital OSF/1 2.0 B
Digital OSF/1 2.0
Digital OSF/1 1.3 A
Digital OSF/1 1.3
Digital OSF/1 1.2
Compaq Tru64 4.0 e
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Tru64 Malformed TCP Packet Denial Of Service Vulnerability

It has been reported that Tru64 systems may be prone to a denial of service condition when handling malformed TCP packets.

Specifically, when processing a malformed TCP packet with both the SYN and FIN flags set, vulnerable Tru64 systems may block indefinitely, thus causing a denial of service. As a result other legitimate users may no longer be capable of accessing remote services.

This vulnerability is said to affect Tru64 4.0E as well as various versions of Digital Unix and VxWorks.

Exploit / POC

Tru64 Malformed TCP Packet Denial Of Service Vulnerability

This vulnerability may be exploited with publicly available tools. The following proof of concept submitted by Luca Papotti has been made available using the hping2 utility:

hping2 -a <spoofed ip> -SPF -p 21 -c 1 <dest ip>

Solution / Fix

Tru64 Malformed TCP Packet Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
It has been reported that a patch has been released to address this issue, however this information has not been confirmed.

Currently the SecurityFocus staff are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

Tru64 Malformed TCP Packet Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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