MITKRB5-SA-2007-006: kadmind RPC lib buffer overflow, uninitialized pointer

Tue Sep 4 14:15:56 EDT 2007

See DETAILS for the expanded CVSSv2 metrics for this vulnerability.

SUMMARY
=======

This advisory concerns two vulnerabilities.  CVE-2007-3999 is much
easier to exploit than CVE-2007-4000.

[CVE-2007-3999]

The MIT krb5 Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) is vulnerable to
a stack buffer overflow in the RPCSEC_GSS authentication flavor of the
RPC library.  Third-party applications using the RPC library provided
with MIT krb5 may also be affected.

We have received a proof-of-concept exploit that does not appear to
execute malicious code, and we believe that this exploit is not
publicly circulated.

This is a bug in the RPC library in MIT krb5.  It is not a bug in the
Kerberos protocol.

[CVE-2007-4000]

The MIT krb5 Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) can write data
through an uninitialized pointer.  We know of no working exploit code
for this vulnerability, and do not believe that any exploit code for
this vulnerability is circulating.

This is a bug in the kadmind in MIT krb5.  It is not a bug in the
Kerberos protocol.

IMPACT
======

[CVE-2007-3999] An unauthenticated remote user may be able to cause a
host running kadmind to execute arbitrary code.

[CVE-2007-4000] An authenticated user with "modify policy" privilege
may be able to cause a host running kadmind to execute arbitrary code.

Successful exploitation of either vulnerability can compromise the
Kerberos key database and host security on the KDC host.  (kadmind
typically runs as root.)  Unsuccessful exploitation attempts will
likely result in kadmind crashing.

Third-party applications calling the RPC library provided with MIT
krb5 may be vulnerable to CVE-2007-3999.

AFFECTED SOFTWARE
=================

[CVE-2007-3999]

* kadmind in MIT releases krb5-1.4 through krb5-1.6.2

* third-party RPC server programs linked against the RPC library
  included in MIT releases krb5-1.4 through krb5-1.6.2

* MIT releases prior to krb5-1.4 did not contain the vulnerable code

[CVE-2007-4000]

* kadmind in MIT releases krb5-1.5 through krb5-1.6.2

* MIT releases prior to krb5-1.5 did not contain the vulnerable code

FIXES
=====

* The upcoming krb5-1.6.3 release, as well as the upcoming krb5-1.5.5
  maintenance release, will contain fixes for this vulnerability.

Prior to that release you may apply the following patch.  Note that
releases prior to krb5-1.5 will not need the svr_policy.c patch.

*** src/lib/kadm5/srv/svr_policy.c	(revision 20254)
- --- src/lib/kadm5/srv/svr_policy.c	(local)
***************
*** 211,218 ****
      if((mask & KADM5_POLICY))
  	return KADM5_BAD_MASK;

!     ret = krb5_db_get_policy(handle->context, entry->policy, &p, &cnt);
!     if( ret && (cnt==0) )
  	return KADM5_UNK_POLICY;

      if ((mask & KADM5_PW_MAX_LIFE))
- --- 211,219 ----
      if((mask & KADM5_POLICY))
  	return KADM5_BAD_MASK;

!     if ((ret = krb5_db_get_policy(handle->context, entry->policy, &p, &cnt)))
! 	return ret;
!     if (cnt != 1)
  	return KADM5_UNK_POLICY;

      if ((mask & KADM5_PW_MAX_LIFE))
*** src/lib/rpc/svc_auth_gss.c	(revision 20254)
- --- src/lib/rpc/svc_auth_gss.c	(local)
***************
*** 339,345 ****
  	oa = &msg->rm_call.cb_cred;
  	IXDR_PUT_ENUM(buf, oa->oa_flavor);
  	IXDR_PUT_LONG(buf, oa->oa_length);
! 	if (oa->oa_length) {
  		memcpy((caddr_t)buf, oa->oa_base, oa->oa_length);
  		buf += RNDUP(oa->oa_length) / sizeof(int32_t);
  	}
- --- 339,345 ----
  	oa = &msg->rm_call.cb_cred;
  	IXDR_PUT_ENUM(buf, oa->oa_flavor);
  	IXDR_PUT_LONG(buf, oa->oa_length);
! 	if (oa->oa_length && oa->oa_length <= sizeof(rpchdr)) {
  		memcpy((caddr_t)buf, oa->oa_base, oa->oa_length);
  		buf += RNDUP(oa->oa_length) / sizeof(int32_t);
  	}

  This patch is also available at

  http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2007-006-patch.txt

  A PGP-signed patch is available at

  http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2007-006-patch.txt.asc

REFERENCES
==========

This announcement is posted at:

  http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2007-006.txt

This announcement and related security advisories may be found on the
MIT Kerberos security advisory page at:

        http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/index.html

The main MIT Kerberos web page is at:

        http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/index.html

CVSSv2:

    http://www.first.org/cvss/cvss-guide.html
    http://nvd.nist.gov/cvss.cfm?calculator&adv&version=2

CVE: CVE-2007-3999
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3999

CERT: VU#883632
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/883632

CVE: CVE-2007-4000
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4000

CERT: VU#377544
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/377544

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
===============

CVE-2007-3999 was discovered by Tenable Network Security and reported
to MIT Kerberos Team by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) of the
TippingPoint division of 3Com.

CVE-2007-4000 was discovered by Garrett Wollman of MIT CSAIL.

DETAILS
=======

[CVE-2007-3999]

The implementation of the RPCSEC_GSS authentication flavor copies
untrusted data having an inadequately-validated length into a buffer
on the stack.  In the function svcauth_gss_validate() in
src/lib/rpc/svc_auth_gss.c, which authenticates the incoming RPC
message, a memcpy() invocation copies a number of bytes into the
128-byte stack buffer "rpchdr".  The length provided to this memcpy()
invocation comes from the RPC header and may be maliciously chosen.
The invocation of xdr_callmsg(), which provides the decoded rpc_msg
structure used by svcauth_gss_validate(), ensures that the provided
length does not exceed MAX_AUTH_BYTES, which is 400, but destination
buffer is smaller than this size, and can be trivially overflowed.

The vulnerable code executes prior to the completion of authentication
of the RPC message, and therefore requires no authentication to
exploit.

Exploitation of stack buffer overflows is trivial on many platforms.

[CVE-2007-4000]

CVSSv2 Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSSv2 Base Score:      7.1

Access Vector:          Network
Access Complexity:      High
Authentication:         Single
Confidentiality Impact: Complete
Integrity Impact:       Complete
Availability Impact:    Complete

CVSSv2 Temporal Score:  5.6

Exploitability:         Proof-of-Concept
Remediation Level:      Official Fix
Report Confidence:      Confirmed

The function kadm5_modify_policy_internal() in
src/lib/kadm5/srv/svr_policy.c, does not check return values from
krb5_db_get_policy() correctly.  When the policy does not exist,
krb5_db_get_policy() returns zero but sets the count retrieved records
to zero without initializing the output pointer.  Subsequent code in
kadm5_modify_policy_internal() can attempt to write data through this
pointer, causing memory corruption.

This vulnerability was not present in MIT releases prior to krb5-1.5.
In the krb5-1.5 release, changes related to the implementation of the
Database Abstraction Layer introduced this vulnerability.

REVISION HISTORY
================

2007-09-04      original release

Copyright (C) 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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