dnrd 2.10 dos

From: Andrew Griffiths (andrewg@tasmail.com)
Date: 01/20/02 

Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:15:27 +1100 (EST)
From: "Andrew Griffiths" <andrewg@tasmail.com>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com

Program: dnrd
Version: 2.10
Distro: n/a

Problem:

There are various problems with dnrd's dns request and reply functions, that
cause it to crash.

Reproduce:

Using two consoles, I did the following

Terminal one got:

[andrewg@blackhole /data/audit/dnrd-2.10/src]$ gdb dnrd
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux".
(gdb) set arg -s 1.2.3.4 -d
(gdb) run
Starting program: /data/audit/dnrd-2.10/src/dnrd -d
[New Thread 1024 (LWP 3249)]
ERROR: Couldn't kill dnrd: No such process
Debug: cache low/high: 800/1000
Debug: initialising master DNS database
Debug: no master configuration: /etc/dnrd/master
Debug: initialising from /etc/hosts, domain= <none>
Debug: /etc/hosts: 3 records
Debug: Received DNS query for "..\SÖanx, 6h??ü-ÀC?Ï"?>" real ? "?????£æ??@ÖwéÕËl?p?Û@??"

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 1024 (LWP 3249)]
parse_query (y=0xbffff140, msg=0xb4bffff7 <Address 0xb4bffff7 out of bounds>,
    len=1346377321) at dns.c:298
298 if (ntohs(((short int *) msg)[2]) == 0) { /* C is nice. */

Note that the ? are various control charatchers that I couldn't paste in,
'cause they are not printable and kept stuffing up vim.

While one terminal two, I did:

dd if=/dev/urandom bs=64 count=1 | nc -u 127.0.0.1 53 -w 1

At one stage I also had msg=0x2e2e2e2e <Address 0x2e2e2e2e out of bounds>.

It's not just parse_query that has this problem, but also places like get_objectname()

Exploit:
-=-=-=-=-

So far I haven't tried to exploit it, but given some of the stuff that I've
seen, I would not be surprised if it was.

Even if their was an exploit, it'd have to work out a way of getting root in a
chroot jail and a non-root acct.

Affected:
-=-=-=-=-

People who use this, or distro's that do, such as smoothwall. :P 

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