Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 19:46:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: FreeBSD Security Advisories <security-advisories@freebsd.org.>
To: Bugtraq <bugtraq@securityfocus.com.>
Subject: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:34.rpc
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FreeBSD-SA-02:34.rpc Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Sun RPC XDR decoder contains buffer overflow
Category: core
Module: libc
Announced: 2002-07-31
Credits: ISS X-Force
Affects: All releases of FreeBSD up to and including 4.6.1-RELEASE-p3
Corrected: 2002-07-31 14:45:29 UTC (RELENG_4)
2002-07-31 14:47:02 UTC (RELENG_4_6)
2002-07-31 14:49:18 UTC (RELENG_4_5)
2002-07-31 14:50:18 UTC (RELENG_4_4)
FreeBSD only: NO
I. Background
Sun RPC is a remote procedure call framework which allows clients
to invoke procedures in a server process over a network somewhat
transparently. XDR is a mechanism for encoding data structures for
use with RPC. NFS, NIS, and many other network services are built
upon Sun RPC.
The FreeBSD C runtime library (libc) contains an XDR encoder/decoder
derived from Sun's RPC implementation.
II. Problem Description
An error in the calculation of memory needed for unpacking arrays in
the XDR decoder can result in a heap buffer overflow.
III. Impact
Any application using Sun RPC may be vulnerable to the heap buffer
overflow. Depending upon the application, this vulnerability may be
exploitable and lead to arbitrary code execution.
Though no exploits are known to exist currently, many RPC-based
services run as the superuser (such as NFS, the NIS server, rpc.statd,
and others) and thus this vulnerability should be considered
high-risk.
No RPC-based services are enabled by default in FreeBSD installations.
IV. Workaround
Do not run any RPC-based services. The RPC-based services running
on a machine may be determined by:
# rpcinfo -p <hostname>
To disable any RPC-based services at next boot, add (or change if it
is already present) the following lines in /etc/rc.conf:
portmap_enable="NO"
nfs_client_enable="NO"
nfs_server_enable="NO"
nis_client_enable="NO"
nis_server_enable="NO"
V. Solution
Do one of the following:
1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to 4.6-STABLE; or to the RELENG_4_6,
RELENG_4_5, or RELENG_4_4 security branch dated after the correction
date (4.6.1-RELEASE-p4, 4.5-RELEASE-p12, or 4.4-RELEASE-p19).
2) To patch your present system:
The following patch has been verified to apply to FreeBSD 4.4, 4.5,
and 4.6 systems.
a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the
detached PGP signature using your PGP utility.
# fetch ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/SA-02:34/rpc.patch
# fetch ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/SA-02:34/rpc.patch.asc
b) Execute the following commands as root:
# cd /usr/src
# patch < /path/to/patch
c) Recompile the operating system as described in
<URL:http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html>;.
Note that any statically linked applications that are not part of
the base system (i.e. from the Ports Collection or other 3rd-party
sources) must be recompiled if they use Sun RPC.
All affected applications must be restarted in order to use the
corrected library. Though it is not required, rebooting may be the
easiest way to accomplish this.
VI. Correction details
The following list contains the revision numbers of each file that was
corrected in FreeBSD.
Path Revision
Branch
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
src/lib/libc/xdr/xdr_array.c
RELENG_4 1.8.2.2
RELENG_4_6 1.8.10.2
RELENG_4_5 1.8.8.2
RELENG_4_4 1.8.6.2
src/sys/conf/newvers.sh
RELENG_4_6 1.44.2.23.2.9
RELENG_4_5 1.44.2.20.2.13
RELENG_4_4 1.44.2.17.2.18
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
VII. References
<URL:http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/285308>;
<URL:http://bvlive01.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp?oid=20823>;
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