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                         ESB-2009.0598 -- [NetBSD]
                      PF firewall: Denial of Service
                              14 August 2009

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:              PF firewall
Publisher:            NetBSD
Operating System:     NetBSD
Impact:               Denial of Service
Access:               Remote/Unauthenticated
CVE Names:            CVE-2009-0687

Original Bulletin:    
  ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2009-001.txt.asc

Revision History:   August 14 2009: Added CVE
                      June 24 2009: Initial Release

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		 NetBSD Security Advisory 2009-001
		 =================================

Topic:		PF firewall remote Denial Of Service attack

Version:	NetBSD-current:		affected
		NetBSD 5.0:		not affected
		NetBSD 4.0.*:		not affected
		NetBSD 4.0:		not affected
		NetBSD 3.1.*:		not affected
		NetBSD 3.1:		not affected
		NetBSD 3.0.*:		not affected
		NetBSD 3.0:		not affected

Severity:	Denial of service

Fixed:		NetBSD-current:		April 14, 2009
		NetBSD-5 branch:	April 14, 2009
			(5.0 includes the fix)

Please note that NetBSD releases prior to 4.0 are no longer supported.
It is recommended that all users upgrade to a supported release.


Abstract
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PF firewalls suffer from a remote denial of service attack (system
panic) due to mishandling of some ICMP and ICMPV6 packets.

Technical Details
=================

When a PF firewall using nat or rdr receives a specially crafted
packet, a null pointer dereference causes a kernel panic.

In pf_test_rule() ICMP logic was implied for IPv6 packets and ICMPv6 logic
was implied for IPv4 packets. The wrong ICMP header length is used and an
assertion fails due to the attempt to access unallocated memory.

See also:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502634
http://www.helith.net/txt/multiple_vendor-PF_null_pointer_dereference.txt

Solutions and Workarounds
=========================

Only kernels compiled with the following option are vulnerable to this issue:

        pseudo-device pf

As a temporary workaround recompile the kernel with the above option 
commented out.  The default NetBSD GENERIC kernels do not have this
option enabled.  In addition to this the system must be running
with nat and/or rdr rules present in the active ruleset.

An additional workaround can be to add the following rules to your 
/etc/pf.conf configuration file:

nat/rdr ... inet proto { tcp udp icmp } ...
nat/rdr ... inet6 proto { tcp udp icmp6 } ...

For all NetBSD versions, you need to obtain fixed kernel sources,
rebuild and install the new kernel, and reboot the system.
                                      
The fixed source may be obtained from the NetBSD CVS repository.        
The following instructions briefly summarize how to upgrade your        
kernel.  In these instructions, replace:

  ARCH     with your architecture (from uname -m), and                  
  KERNCONF with the name of your kernel configuration file.    

To update from CVS, re-build, and re-install the kernel:

        # cd src
        # cvs update -d -P sys/dist/pf/net/pf.c
        # ./build.sh kernel=KERNCONF
        # mv /netbsd /netbsd.old
        # cp sys/arch/ARCH/compile/obj/KERNCONF/netbsd /netbsd 
        # shutdown -r now

For more information on how to do this, see:    

   http://www.NetBSD.org/guide/en/chap-kernel.html


Thanks To
=========

"Rembrandt" is credited with the discovery of this issue.
Christos Zoulas for applying the OpenBSD fix.


Revision History
================

	2009-03-15	Initial release


More Information
================

Advisories may be updated as new information becomes available.
The most recent version of this advisory (PGP signed) can be found at 
  ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2009-001.txt.asc

Information about NetBSD and NetBSD security can be found at
http://www.NetBSD.org/ and http://www.NetBSD.org/Security/.


Copyright 2009, The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
Redistribution permitted only in full, unmodified form.

$NetBSD: NetBSD-SA2009-001.txt,v 1.1 2009/06/22 19:31:01 tonnerre Exp $

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