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ESB-2000.169 -- NetBSD Security Advisory 2000-008
dhclient vulnerability
14 July 2000
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: dhclient
Vendor: NetBSD
Operating System: NetBSD
Platform: N/A
Impact: Root Compromise
Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands
Access Required: Remote
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NetBSD Security Advisory 2000-008
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Topic: dhclient vulnerability
Version: all.
Severity: possible remote root access from rogue dhcp server.
Abstract
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The DHCP client program, dhclient(8), did not correctly handle DHCP
options it receives in DHCP response messages, possibly permitting a
rogue dhcp server to send maliciously formed options which resulted in
a remote root compromise.
Technical Details
=================
dhclient uses a shell script, /etc/dhclient-script, to make changes to
system configurations based on configuration information received from
a DHCP server. Unfortunately, dhcp options values were passed from
dhclient to the script without sufficient quoting.
Maliciously formed messages could therefore exploit shell features to
trick the script into executing arbitrary shell commands. Since
dhclient-script needs to run as root to reconfigure system interfaces,
these arbitrary commands would also be executed as root.
Solutions and Workarounds
=========================
Systems running NetBSD-1.4.2 and prior may be vulnerable. Systems
running NetBSD-current from before 20000625 or NetBSD-release from
before 20000629 may be vulnerable.
If your system does not and will never run the "/sbin/dhclient" daemon
to dynamically obtain an IP address, your system is not vulnerable to
this problem.
The command:
% ps auxww | grep dhclient
will show if dhclient is running on a system.
Systems running versions of NetBSD prior to 1.4 should be upgraded to
NetBSD 1.4.2 or a newer release.
If you are running any NetBSD 1.4.x release, you should download the
patch listed below, and apply it to src/usr.sbin/dhcp/client/options.c
using the patch(1) command. If you are running NetBSD-current or
NetBSD-release, you should update your source tree (with either sup or
anonymous CVS).
In both cases you should then rebuild and reinstall DHCP:
% cd src/usr.sbin/dhcp
% make all
# make install
You should then kill off and restart any existing dhclient processes.
Patch for all releases of 1.4.x:
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/misc/security/patches/20000708-dhclient
Thanks To
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Todd Fries and others of OpenBSD (for discovery of the problem),
Jun-ichiro Hagino <itojun@netbsd.org>, and Ted Lemon of ISC.
Revision History
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2000/06/28 - Initial version.
2000/07/08 - Released
More Information
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Information about NetBSD and NetBSD security can be found at
http://www.NetBSD.ORG/ and http://www.NetBSD.ORG/Security/.
Copyright 2000, The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
$NetBSD: NetBSD-SA2000-008.txt,v 1.2 2000/07/08 21:03:10 sommerfeld Exp $
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