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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-070: Flaw in SMB Signing Could Enable Group Policy to be Modified (309376)
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 03:19:05 -0800
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Flaw in SMB Signing Could Enable Group Policy to be Modified (309376) Date: 11 December 2002 Software: Windows 2000, Windows XP Impact: Modify group policy Max Risk: Moderate Bulletin: MS02-070 Microsoft encourages customers to review the Security Bulletins at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-070.asp http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/ms02-070.asp. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue: ====== Server Message Block (SMB) is a protocol natively supported by all versions of Windows. Although nominally a file-sharing protocol, it is used for other purposes as well, the most important of which is disseminating group policy information from domain controllers to newly logged on systems. Beginning with Windows 2000, it is possible to improve the integrity of SMB sessions by digitally signing all packets in a session. Windows 2000 and Windows XP can be configured to always sign, never sign, or sign only if the other party requires it. A flaw in the implementation of SMB Signing in Windows 2000 and Windows XP could enable an attacker to silently downgrade the SMB Signing settings on an affected system. To do this, the attacker would need access to the session negotiation data as it was exchanged between a client and server, and would need to modify the data in a way that exploits the flaw. This would cause either or both systems to send unsigned data regardless of the signing policy the administrator had set. After having downgraded the signing setting, the attacker could continue to monitor the session and change data within it; the lack of signing would prevent the communicants from detecting the changes. Although this vulnerability could be exploited to expose any SMB session to tampering, the most serious case would involve changing group policy information as it was being disseminated from a Windows 2000 domain controller to a newly logged-on network client. By doing this, the attacker could take actions such as adding users to the local Administrators group or installing and running code of his or her choice on the system. Mitigating Factors: ==================== - A fix for this issue is already included in Windows XP Service Pack 1. - Exploiting the vulnerability would require the attacker to have significant network access already. In most cases, the attacker would need to be located on the same network segment as one of the two participants in the SMB session. - The attacker would need to exploit the vulnerability separately for each SMB session he or she wanted to interfere with. - The vulnerability would not enable the attacker to change group policy on the domain controller, only to change it as it flowed to the client. - SMB Signing is disabled by default on Windows 2000 and Windows XP because of the performance penalty it exacts. On networks where SMB Signing has not been enabled, the vulnerability would pose no additional risk - because SMB data would already be vulnerable to modification. Risk Rating: ============ - Windows 2000: Moderate - Windows XP: Low - Windows XP Service Pack 1: None Patch Availability: =================== - A patch is available to fix this vulnerability. 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