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> Subject: iDefense Security Advisory 12.09.05: Ethereal OSPF
> Protocol DissectorBuffer Overflow Vulnerability
>
> Ethereal OSPF Protocol Dissector Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
>
> iDefense Security Advisory 12.09.05
> www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=349&type=vulnerabilities
> December 9, 2005
>
> I. BACKGROUND
>
> Ethereal is a full featured open source network protocol analyzer.
>
> For more information, see
>
> II. DESCRIPTION
>
> Remote exploitation of an input validation vulnerability in the OSPF
> protocol dissectors within Ethereal, as included in various vendors
> operating system distributions, could allow attackers to crash the
> vulnerable process or potentially execute arbitrary code.
>
> The affected Ethereal component is used to analyse Open Shortest Path
> First (OSPF) Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP), as specified in
> RFC-2178.
>
> The vulnerability specifically exists due to no bounds checking being
> performed in the dissect_ospf_v3_address_prefix() function. This
> function takes user-supplied binary data and attempts to
> convert it into
> a human readable string. This function uses a fixed length buffer on
> the stack to store the constructed string but performs no
> checks on the
> length of the input. If the generated output length from the input
> exceeds the size of the buffer, a stack-based overflow occurs.
>
> III. ANALYSIS
>
> Successful exploitation allows remote attackers to perform a
> DoS against
> a running instance of Ethereal and may, under certain conditions,
> potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code. As the overflow
> string is generated from a format string converting binary values into
> their hexadecimal (base 16) equivalent characters, it can
> contain only a
> limited subset of all possible characters, and the length of an
> overflow is only able to be controlled to within the three characters.
> This may prevent exploit ability on some platforms; however, it may be
> possible that these constraints will not prevent exploitation on
> others.
>
> IV. DETECTION
>
> iDefense has confirmed the existence of this vulnerability in the
> ethereal-0.10.12 RPM from Red Hat Fedora Core 3. It is suspected that
> previous versions containing the OSPF dissector code are also
> vulnerable.
>
> V. WORKAROUND
>
> Disable the OSPF packet dissector in Ethereal by performing the
> following actions as the user invoking Ethereal, typically root.
>
> Create the .ethereal directory:
>
> # mkdir ~/.ethereal
>
> You can safely ignore the following error:
>
> mkdir: cannot create directory '/root/.ethereal': File exists
>
> Add the OSPF dissector to the list of protocols to ignore.
>
> # echo ospf >> ~/.ethereal/disabled_protos
>
> This workaround will prevent Ethereal from parsing the
> contents of OSPF
> packets, which prevents exposure to the vulnerability.
>
> VI. VENDOR RESPONSE
>
> A source patch is available from the main ethereal SVN Repository:
>
>
> packet-ospf.c?rev=16507&view=markup
>
> VII. CVE INFORMATION
>
> The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has
> assigned the
> name CVE-2005-3651 to this issue. This is a candidate for inclusion in
> the CVE list (), which standardizes names for
> security problems.
>
> VIII. DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
>
> 11/14/2005 Initial vendor notification
> 11/14/2005 Initial vendor response
> 12/09/2005 Public disclosure
>
> IX. CREDIT
>
> The discoverer of this vulnerability wishes to remain anonymous.
>
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>
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>
> X. LEGAL NOTICES
>
> Copyright (c) 2005 iDefense, Inc.
>
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>
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