Honeyd Remote Virtual Host Detection Vulnerability

BID:9464

Info

Honeyd Remote Virtual Host Detection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 9464
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2004-2095
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 18 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 02:06AM
Credit: Discovery of this issue is credited to Joseph Corey.
Vulnerable: Honeyd Honeyd 0.7 a
Honeyd Honeyd 0.7
Honeyd Honeyd 0.6 a
Honeyd Honeyd 0.6
Honeyd Honeyd 0.5
Not Vulnerable: Honeyd Honeyd 0.8

Discussion

Honeyd Remote Virtual Host Detection Vulnerability

Honeyd is prone to a vulnerability that may permit remote users to detect the presence of virtual hosts spawned by the server. This is due to a flaw in how Honeyd responds to certain TCP packets, effectively allowing a remote user to determine if a scanned address is a virtual Honeyd host. The consequence is that a remote attacker could enumerate the existence of simulated Honeyd hosts and then either target specific attacks against these hosts or avoid them altogether.

Exploit / POC

Honeyd Remote Virtual Host Detection Vulnerability

A patch to the scanrand tool included in the Paketto Keiretsu scanning tool has been publicized that detects Honeyd virtual hosts.

Solution / Fix

Honeyd Remote Virtual Host Detection Vulnerability

Solution:
Gentoo has released updates to address this issue. These updates may be applied with the following commands:

emerge sync
emerge -pv ">=net-analyzer/honeyd-0.8"
emerge ">=net-analyzer/honeyd-0.8"

This issue has been addressed with the release of Honeyd 0.8.


Honeyd Honeyd 0.5

Honeyd Honeyd 0.6 a

Honeyd Honeyd 0.6

Honeyd Honeyd 0.7

Honeyd Honeyd 0.7 a

References

Honeyd Remote Virtual Host Detection Vulnerability

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