FW: EEYE: Microsoft ASN.1 Library Length Overflow Heap Corruption

[Howell, Paul]

Here's a little more on the asn issue.  Sorry if you've seen this already.

< paul


-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Maiffret [mailto:mmaiffret@eeye.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 3:47 PM
To: Tina Bird
Cc: Joe Blatz; BUGTRAQ@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: EEYE: Microsoft ASN.1 Library Length Overflow Heap
Corruption


Yes, I am not sure what Microsoft did with the wording there that seems
to be misleading to at least a few people so far.

There is just as much, if not more, chance of people using this
vulnerability on server side applications as there is on client-side
applications.

For example we setup a totally IPSEC secured network and we broke into
that network via our ASN bug which is called by the Kerberos. We also
have written exploits that take advantage of ASN via NTLMv2
authentication. And the list goes on... How about evil ASN SSL CERTs?
Client or server? There is a menu a mile long for the avenues of attacks
that this thing can be used for.

If your running, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows
2003, you are 99.9999% positive to be vulnerable, regardless of what
your configuration might be. Don't try to guess if you have any of the
affected protocols or applications (lets not forget third party apps
using the MS ASN library), just install the patch. 

Client side, server side, world wide.

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Marc Maiffret
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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Tina Bird [mailto:tbird@precision-guesswork.com] 
| Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 12:41 PM
| To: Marc Maiffret
| Cc: Joe Blatz; BUGTRAQ@securityfocus.com
| Subject: RE: EEYE: Microsoft ASN.1 Library Length Overflow 
| Heap Corruption
| 
| 
| On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Marc Maiffret wrote:
| 
| > This attack can be performed through various encryption 
| systems such 
| > as Kerberos and almost anything using CERTs... I am not sure about 
| > Microsofts wording in their advisory.
| 
| Microsoft also states that servers are likelier to be 
| attacked using this vulnerability than clients are, because 
| they're likelier to be decoding
| ASN.1 data.  But if the vulnerable code can be accessed via 
| LSASS.exe, doesn't that mean all systems are at risk?
| 
| thanks for any info -- tbird
| 
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