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- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:59:54 +0200
- From: Joel Jacobson <joel@mobila.cx>
- To: BUGTRAQ@netspace.org
- Subject: ARP problem in Windows9X/NT
-
- Hello all bugtraqers!
-
- I've found a problem in Windows9X/NT's way of handeling ARP packets.
-
- If you flood a computer at your LAN with the packet below, it's user
- will be forced to click a messagebox's OK button x times, where x is the number
- of packets you flooded with.
-
- I advice Microsoft to develope a patch for this problem, that let you
- choose to ignore all future messages of this type.
-
- There is no way to trace the flooder since the MAC address in the
- packet can be modified to anything. Bad configurated routers will
- not drop this packet. When I tested this problem on my LAN I could
- flood a computer on another C-net at my LAN without problems.
-
- The program NetXRay was used to preform the flood.
- The victims had to reboot their computer, or choose to click _very_
- many OK buttons.
-
- The ARP packet is build up like this:
-
- Ethernet Version II:
- Address: XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX --->FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF
- Ehternet II Protocol Type: ARP
- Address Resolution Protocol:
- Hardware Type: 1 (Ethernet)
- Protocol Type: 800
- Hardware Address: Length: 6
- Protocol Address: Length: 4
- Operations: ARP Request
- Source Hardware Address: XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX
- IP Source Address: <victim computer's IP>
- Destination Hardware Address: XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX
- IP Destination Address: <victim computer's IP>
-
- And in HEX the packet look like this:
- ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 06 08 00 06 04 00 01 00 00 00
- 00 00 00 XX XX XX XX 00 00 00 00 00 00 XX XX XX XX
- (XX is what matters here)
-
- Hope a patch for this problem will be developed fast, cause this is a
- big problem for my school and probably also to others.
-
- I'm not a C programmer, and don't know how to write an exploit for
- this problem. So, if anyone else can develope an exploit, feel free to do so.
-
- Joel Jacobson.
-
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-
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:44:12 +0200
- From: Joel Jacobson <joel@mobila.cx>
- To: BUGTRAQ@netspace.org
- Subject: Answer to some questions I got about the ARP "bug"
-
- Hi.
-
- In the message I sent to BugTraq, XX XX XX XX is the victim's IP
- Address, in HEX.
-
- Example:
- If you want to flood IP 192.168.0.1 at your network you would enter
- this hex value: C0 A8 00 01
-
- (I tought this was obvious)
-
- Regards, Joel.
-
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-
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:55:01 +0200
- From: Joel Jacobson <joel@mobila.cx>
- To: BUGTRAQ@netspace.org
- Subject: Re: ARP problem in Windows9X/NT
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-
- Hello Gandalf,
-
- mσndag, 12 april 1999, you wrote:
-
- gpc> Perhaps I am doing it wrong, but sending out arp requests like this only
- gpc> generates a single messagebox. If you send one or a million requests in
- gpc> the time it takes to click ok, no new messageboxes will appear.
-
- gpc> This is on NT4 sp4.
- Okey. Well, I tested this on a friend that run NT, don't know if he
- has sp4 installed or not. But still, the problems exist in Windows98,
- and if Microsoft has developed a fix for NT, why can't they release
- one for Windows98 too?
-
- gpc> The packet I am sending out seems a tad different from the one listed,
- gpc> the hex dump above seems to be missing the hardware address type.
- I've attached an example.
- This packet will attack the computer 192.168.0.1 on your network.
-
- Best regards,
- Joel mailto:joel@mobila.cx
- [ Part 2, Application/OCTET-STREAM (Name: "example.cap") 270bytes. ]
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-
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:21:46 -0700
- From: route@RESENTMENT.INFONEXUS.COM
- To: BUGTRAQ@netspace.org
- Subject: Re: ARP problem in Windows9X/NT
-
- [gandalf@pobox.com wrote]
- |
- | Unfortunetly i don't have a 98 to test on, or an non sp4 NT machines. For
-
- I do. It works against Windows 98.
-
- | BTW, this is all from linux 2.2.5.
-
- I've tried it from OpenBSD 2.4, FreeBSD 3.1 and Linux 2.2.x.
-
- --
- I live a world of paradox... My willingness to destroy is your chance for
- improvement, my hate is your faith -- my failure is your victory, a victory
- that won't last.
-
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-
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:49:22 -0400
- From: Alan DeKok <alan@CRYPTOCARD.COM>
- To: BUGTRAQ@netspace.org
- Subject: Re: ARP problem in Windows9X/NT
-
- route@RESENTMENT.INFONEXUS.COM wrote:
- > Didn't test your code. Rolled my from the same libnet example, and it
- > does work against NT and 95/98.
-
- I tested yours against a number of machines at work. Summary:
-
- NT4 sp3 displays one requestor. While it's on-screen, any
- additional ARP packets are ignored. Clicking 'OK', and then sending
- more packets results in another requestor.
-
- 95/98 displays one requestor per packet.
-
- Alan DeKok.
-
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-
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:07:53 -0400
- From: gandalf@POBOX.COM
- To: BUGTRAQ@netspace.org
- Subject: Re: ARP problem in Windows9X/NT
-
- On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 route@RESENTMENT.INFONEXUS.COM wrote:
- > [kay wrote]
- > | I started writing that proggie with plain syscalls, but it would only run
- > | on Linux, so I modified one of the examples in Route's Libnet 0.9 to do
- > | the stuff. I haven't tested it yes since I don't have LAN at home...
- >
- > Didn't test your code. Rolled my from the same libnet example, and it
- > does work against NT and 95/98.
-
- Your code, humerously enough, was almost exactly the same as mine, I was
- even using libnet. However neither your code nor mine causes more than
- one messagebox to appear on my NT4 sp4 machine.
-
- I actually tried this a month or two ago, and gave up since it seemed to
- have no effect on NT, I swear at the time I tested 95 and 98 too. Looking
- at it again, both your code and mine _do_ have the multi-messagebox effect
- on a 95B machine,
-
- Unfortunetly i don't have a 98 to test on, or an non sp4 NT machines. For
- those who have gotten it to work on NT, what sp level was NT at?
- BTW, this is all from linux 2.2.5.
-
- -chris
-
- _______________________________________________________
- Christopher Rogers Stevens Institute of Technology
- gandalf@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gandalf
-
- If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
-