Alert: Microsoft Security Bulletin - MS03-039

From: Russ (Russ.Cooper_at_RC.ON.CA)
Date: 09/10/03

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    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-039.asp

    Buffer Overrun In RPCSS Service Could Allow Code Execution (824146)

    Originally posted: September 10, 2003

    Summary

    Who should read this bulletin: Users running Microsoft ® Windows ®

    Impact of vulnerability: Run code of attacker's choice

    Maximum Severity Rating: Critical

    Recommendation: System administrators should apply the security patch immediately

    End User Bulletin:
    An end user version of this bulletin is available at:

    http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/ms03-039.asp.

    Protect your PC:
    Additional information on how you can help protect your PC is available at the following locations:
    - End Users can visit http://www.microsoft.com/protect
    - IT Professionals can visit http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tips/pcprotec.asp

    Affected Software:
    - Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0
    - Microsoft Windows NT Server® 4.0
    - Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition
    - Microsoft Windows 2000
    - Microsoft Windows XP
    - Microsoft Windows Server 2003
    Not Affected Software:
    - Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition

    Technical description:

    The fix provided by this patch supersedes the one included in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-026.

    Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a protocol used by the Windows operating system. RPC provides an inter-process communication mechanism that allows a program running on one computer to seamlessly access services on another computer. The protocol itself is derived from the Open Software Foundation (OSF) RPC protocol, but with the addition of some Microsoft specific extensions.

    There are three identified vulnerabilities in the part of RPCSS Service that deals with RPC messages for DCOM activation- two that could allow arbitrary code execution and one that could result in a denial of service. The flaws result from incorrect handling of malformed messages. These particular vulnerabilities affect the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) interface within the RPCSS Service. This interface handles DCOM object activation requests that are sent from one machine to another.

    An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could be able to run code with Local System privileges on an affected system, or could cause the RPCSS Service to fail. The attacker could then be able to take any action on the system, including installing programs, viewing, changing or deleting data, or creating new accounts with full privileges.

     To exploit these vulnerabilities, an attacker could create a program to send a malformed RPC message to a vulnerable system targeting the RPCSS Service.

    Microsoft has released a tool that can be used to scan a network for the presence of systems which have not had the MS03-039 patch installed. More details on this tool are available in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 827363. This tool supersedes the one provided in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 826369. If the tool provided in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 826369 is used against a system which has installed the security patch provided with this bulletin, the superseded tool will incorrectly report that the system is missing the patch provided in MS03-026. Microsoft encourages customers to run the latest version of the tool available in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 827363 to determine if their systems are patched.

    Mitigating factors:
    - Firewall best practices and standard default firewall configurations can help protect networks from remote attacks originating outside of the enterprise perimeter. Best practices recommend blocking all ports that are not actually being used. For this reason, most systems attached to the Internet should have a minimal number of the affected ports exposed.

    For more information about the ports used by RPC, visit the following Microsoft Web site:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/tcpip/part4/tcpappc.asp

    Vulnerability identifier:
    Buffer Overrun: CAN-2003-0715

    Buffer Overrun: CAN-2003-0528

    Denial of Service: CAN-2003-0605

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    Cheers,
    Russ - Surgeon General of TruSecure Corporation/NTBugtraq Editor 

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