Computer Security Update Bob Cowles, SLAC stanford.edu Presented at RAL 09 Dec 2002 Work supported by U. S. Department of Energy contract DE-AC03-76SF00515
09 Deceber 2002RAL – Bob Cowles – SLAC2 Areas Solaris Cisco Linux IIS Internet Explorer Windows Web Applications Misc Virus & Worm Conclusions News
09 Deceber 2002RAL – Bob Cowles – SLAC3 Solaris ssh & OpenSSH in.talkd cachefsd xdr_array bo (affects OpenAFS too) ttdbserver TTYPROMPT Java priocntl XFS
09 Deceber 2002RAL – Bob Cowles – SLAC4 Cisco et al ssh Aironet wireless APs (telnet) ntp daemon httpd default passwords DSL router vulnerabilities
09 Deceber 2002RAL – Bob Cowles – SLAC5 Linux wu-ftp glibc ssh & OpenSSH glibc (reboot required) Bugzilla OpenSSL TCPDUMP and libcap Mozilla 1.2 KDE
09 Deceber 2002RAL – Bob Cowles – SLAC6 Apache Transfer chunking mod_ssl off-by-one shared memory scoreboard - scripting
09 Deceber 2002RAL – Bob Cowles – SLAC7 IIS Cookie handling error (cross domains).htr heap overflow Office Web components SmartHTML interpreter.htr transfer chunking XSS vulnerabilities MDAC
09 Deceber 2002RAL – Bob Cowles – SLAC8 Internet Explorer file name spoofing VBScript read local files jpeg scripting Gopher protocol error SSL cert checking error (Outlook, too) Cached objects MDAC
09 Deceber 2002RAL – Bob Cowles – SLAC9 Windows MS SQL Server & Media Player XMLHTTP JVM Debugger MS Office document grabbing Network Connection Manager Windows XP SP1
09 Deceber 2002RAL – Bob Cowles – SLAC10 Web Applications (little progress) OS cmd or SQL injection by forms & URL parms File traversal “../” in file uploads Leaving inappropriate permissions on folders Errors that reveal source code & passwords Failure to perform validation of ALL input Using non-expiring cookies for login Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Depending on client-side security
09 Deceber 2002RAL – Bob Cowles – SLAC11 Misc Add’l files indexed by Google AOL AIM & Yahoo Messenger snmp PGP buffer overflow zlib libbind resolver buffer overflow MIME send by reference (RFC 2046) TCP/IP ambiguity Realplayer bind out-of-office
09 Deceber 2002RAL – Bob Cowles – SLAC12 Virus & Worm Magistr badtrans Goner Myparty: Frethem (your password) Klez Bugbear e-card spam Winevar (uses auto-opening of html attachments)
09 Deceber 2002RAL – Bob Cowles – SLAC13 Conclusions Poor administration is still a major problem Firewalls cannot substitute for patches Multiple levels of virus/worm protection are necessary Clue is more important than open source
09 Deceber 2002RAL – Bob Cowles – SLAC14 News OpenSSH trojaned 20 things to make systems safe and secure New PGP.. incl. version 8.0 for Windows SMTP trojaned Flash & Warhol worms Attack on root DNS servers Oct22.html Oct22.html The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick Mind of the Miscreant System maintenance is lacking MS ftp server reveals all