ipfilter denial of service problem

["Yiming Gong" <yiming () security zz ha cn>]

Below is an ipfilter security issue, and my previous mail to author
Darren was bounced back, so I think maybe I should mail it to this
mailing list.

Overview
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Anytime ipfilter see a packet with ACK bit set without the previous SYN,
it will marked it as TCPS_ESTABLISHED in it's state table, and for
ipfilter will soon notice the RESET packet send back by the system
application, it will then change it's ttl in state table to 1 minute,OK,
it's good.

But If an attact send packet with ACK bit set and bad checksum, ipfilter
will happily add an "ESTABLISHED" session into it's state table which
will wait 120 hours to timeout instead of the normal 1 minutes! 

So using this way an evil guy can easily  destroy  the network
connection of any system with ipfilter installed in a few minutes!


proof of concept
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[yiming () security zz ha cn]#hping -s ip.of.spoofedandtrusted.box -A
ip.of.target.box  -p 22 -c 1 -b

you will immediately see a a long wait ttl of 120 hours, like this

security.zz.ha.cn,1235  server,22     4/0  tcp       1        40
119:59:48

Affected Versions:
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I've test the following version of ipfilter

IP Filter: v3.4.30 

IP Filter: v3.4.29 (400)


a chinese vesion of these security issue is at

http://security.zz.ha.cn 

Best wishes!
 
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我要更好的生活 



Yiming Gong 
Senior System Administrator 
China Netcom
yiming () security zz ha cn 
http://security.zz.ha.cn 
0086-371-7934907