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- From: brossard@sic.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,alt.security
- Subject: ypserv, unsecure
- Message-ID: <2196@sicsun.epfl.ch>
- Date: 19 Dec 91 12:02:21 GMT
-
-
- In a prior message on alt.security, there was mention of a
- vulnerability of ypserv. Since enough people now know about this
- security hole, I guess it is time to post a solution!
-
- I won't go into the details of exactly what this hole his,
- but it is fairly trivial to get any NIS maps as long as you can
- be root on the internet. Since this NIS map can be the password
- file...
-
- One way to improve the situation is to use a random NIS domain
- name for your domain, this will make it that much harder to
- get your maps, another solution is to cut all RPC packets
- >From coming in your domain.
-
- In article <prl.691873839@iis>, prl@iis.ethz.ch (Peter Lamb) writes:
- |> 2) The Lamb Party Line. If you communicate to the outside world through a
- |> smart router, filter out packets coming from external connections
- |> addressed to destination ports sunrpc/udp&tcp (port 111) and ports
- |> 600-1023, tcp&udp. This will prevent access to *all* sunrpc services
- |> from outside the router. It will also block access to the Kerberos
- |> protocols (probably also not a bad idea given the info. in Steve
- |> Bellovin's paper about Kerberos security problems), and will
- |> probably block the BSD `r' (rcp,rlogin, etc) commands, but don't
- |> count on it doing so. If you and your router are smart enough, you
- |> may be able to make the `r' commands work. Eg, for rlogin, allow
- |> the packets through iff their source is 513/tcp (this opens up a hole
- |> for a sufficiently clever cracker, though). Blocking port 111 alone
- |> is insufficient but will block the most obvious attacks (including
- |> those I've been told have already actually occurred).
- |>
-
- A better solution which solves the problem with ypserv and
- ypxfrd has been developed in cooperation with quite a few people.
- It also solves the following two problems:
-
- 1- There was still the problem that a DNS in bad hands
- could spoof anybody (Sun's fix to BSD bind for this
- still had one hole, BSD's bind is highly vulnerable)
- (The fix for this came from Tho Deraadt)
- 2- The annoying erroneous warning nres_gethostbyaddr: ... != ...
- has been fixed (this was suggested by Vince Giambalvo) and
- Tho Deraadt provided the impetus.
-
- Once again due to copyright restrictions, sources are not
- available. However for those who want the source patches, send
- me the last 3 lines of ypserv.c and I'll e-mail them ...
- as long as it's in before Thursday night local time :-).
- For those who want to rebuild their libc.so, I have included
- gethostnamadr.o which has been fixed (see 3- above). For my
- local managers, I also included the full libc.so which is why
- the main patch is big (800KBytes+). My libc.so included uses
- the DNS directly which is why it needed to be patched. If you
- use DNS via the ypserver, it has been patched already, no need
- for the libc.so.
-
- The patch is available, for now, on litsun.epfl.ch in the directory
- pub. Since the cost of transfering my local patch with the libc's
- might be too high across continents, I also made a second file
- without the libc's. I've been told that I shouldn't use litsun
- in the future, so the patches won't stay there too long...
-
- -rw-r--r-- 1 brossard 819190 Dec 17 14:15 nis.patch-01.tar.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root 117771 Dec 17 15:05 nis.patch.no.libc-01.tar.Z
- litsun# sum *.Z
- 11058 800 nis.patch-01.tar.Z
- 36615 116 nis.patch.no.libc-01.tar.Z
-
- To use the new ypserv, read the included man page on ypserv
- and hosts.nis.
-
- Thanks to all who contributed, you know who you are.
-
- Alain
-
- PS: I've had request for patches for other vendors, since we don't
- have any sources I can't provide them. But we do have HP and SG's
- machines so I would be glad to be a central repository for binaries/
- patches for other vendors.
-
- --
-
- Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
- SIC/SII, EL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse, +41 21 693-2211
- brossard@sic.epfl.ch
-
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