MITKRB5-SA-2010-002 denial of service in SPNEGO [CVE-2010-0628 VU#839413]

[Tom Yu]

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MITKRB5-SA-2010-002

MIT krb5 Security Advisory 2010-002
Original release: 2010-03-23
Last update: 2010-03-23

Topic: denial of service in SPNEGO

CVE-2010-0628
VU#839413
denial of service in SPNEGO

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

CVSSv2 Base Score:      7.8

Access Vector:          Network
Access Complexity:      Low
Authentication:         None
Confidentiality Impact: None
Integrity Impact:       None
Availability Impact:    Complete

CVSSv2 Temporal Score:  6.1

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

SUMMARY
=======

In MIT krb5 releases krb5-1.7 and later, the SPNEGO GSS-API mechanism
can experience an assertion failure when receiving certain invalid
messages. This can cause a GSS-API application to crash.

This is an implementation vulnerability in MIT krb5, and not a
vulnerability in the Kerberos protocol.

IMPACT
======

An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a GSS-API application,
including the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) to crash.

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

* kadmind in MIT releases krb5-1.7 and later

* FTP daemon in MIT releases krb5-1.7 and later

* Third-party software using the GSS-API library from MIT krb5
  releases krb5-1.7 and later

* MIT releases prior to krb5-1.7 did not contain the vulnerable code.

FIXES
=====

* The upcoming krb5-1.7.2 and krb5-1.8.1 releases will contain fixes
  for this vulnerability.

* Apply the patch available at

  http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2010-002-patch.txt

  A PGP-signed patch is available at

  http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2010-002-patch.txt.asc

REFERENCES
==========

This announcement is posted at:

  http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2010-002.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-2010-0628
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0628

CERT: VU#839413
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/839413

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

Thanks to Nalin Dahyabhai, Jan iankko Lieskovsky, and Zbysek Mraz (all
from Red Hat) for discovering and reporting this vulnerability.

CONTACT
=======

The MIT Kerberos Team security contact address is
<krbcore-security at mit.edu>.  When sending sensitive information,
please PGP-encrypt it using the following key:

pub   2048R/8B8DF501 2010-01-15 [expires: 2011-02-01]
uid     MIT Kerberos Team Security Contact <krbcore-security at mit.edu>

DETAILS
=======

A patch to fix CVE-2009-0845 interacted poorly with new functionality
introduced in krb5-1.7.  This allowed an error condition to occur
where receiving an invalid packet could cause an assertion failure,
crashing the program and causing denial of service.

When the spnego_gss_accept_sec_context() function (in
src/lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c) receives an invalid packet during
the beginning of a GSS-API protocol exchange, it can set some internal
state that tells it to send an error token without first creating a
context handle, but some subsequently executed code contains a call to
assert() that requires that the context handle be non-null.

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

2010-03-23      original release

Copyright (C) 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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