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The U.S. Department of Energy
Computer Incident Advisory Center
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INFORMATION BULLETIN
FreeBSD IPFilter May Incorrectly Pass Packets
[FreeBSD Bulletin FreeBSD-SA-01:32 [Revised]]
April 20, 2001 00:00 GMT Number L-075
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PROBLEM: The IPFilter package is used to implement the FreeBSD firewall
function. A vulnerability may allow packets to bypass the
filter.
PLATFORM: FreeBSD 3.x (all releases), FreeBSD 4.x (all releases), FreeBSD
3.5-STABLE, and 4.2-STABLE prior to the correction date that
use the IPFilter function.
DAMAGE: A malicious user could create packets that would bypass the
firewall.
SOLUTION: If you use the IPFilter function, install the patches as shown
in the FreeBSD bulletin FreeBSD-SA-01:32
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VULNERABILITY The risk is LOW. An intruder would have to know the state
ASSESSMENT: information of existing packet streams in order to bypass the
firewall function. If you do not use the IPFilter function, you
are not impacted.
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FreeBSD-SA-01:32 Security Advisory
FreeBSD, Inc.
Topic: IPFilter may incorrectly pass packets [REVISED]
Category: core
Module: IPFilter
Announced: 2001-04-16
Revised: 2001-04-19
Credits: Thomas Lopatic <thomas@lopatic.de>
Affects: FreeBSD 3.x (all releases), FreeBSD 4.x (all releases),
FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE, and 4.2-STABLE prior to the
correction date.
Corrected: 2001-04-07 (FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE)
Vendor status: Corrected
FreeBSD only: NO
0. Revision History
v1.0 2001-04-16 Initial release
v1.1 2001-04-19 Corrected patch location
I. Background
IPFilter is a multi-platform packet filtering package.
II. Problem Description
When matching a packet fragment, insufficient checks were performed
to ensure the fragment is valid. In addition, the fragment cache is
checked before any rules are checked. Even if all fragments are
blocked with a rule, fragment cache entries can be created by
packets that match currently held state information. Because of
these discrepancies, certain packets may bypass filtering rules.
All versions of FreeBSD prior to the correction date, including
FreeBSD 3.5.1 and 4.2, contain this problem. The base system that
will ship with FreeBSD 4.3 does not contain this problem since it
was corrected during the beta cycle before the release.
III. Impact
Malicious remote users may be able to bypass filtering rules, allowing
them to potentially circumvent the firewall.
IPFilter is not enabled by default. If you have not enabled IPFilter,
your system is not vulnerable to this problem.
IV. Workaround
Since fragment cache matching occurs before filtering rules checking,
it is not possible to work around this problem using IPFilter rules.
V. Solution
[FreeBSD 3.x]
Due to the age of the IPFilter package shipped with FreeBSD 3.x, it
is recommended that FreeBSD 3.x systems update to IPFilter 3.4.17
using the package available from the authors website:
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html
[FreeBSD 4.x]
One of the following:
1) Upgrade to FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE after the correction date.
2) Download the patch and detached PGP signature from the following
location:
The following patch applies to FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE through 4.2-STABLE.
# fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/SA-01:32/ipfilter.patch
# fetch
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/SA-01:32/ipfilter.patch.asc
Verify the detached signature using your PGP utility.
Issue the following commands as root:
# cd /usr/src
# patch -p < /path/to/patch
If the system is using ipfilter as a kernel module, the module may be
rebuilt and installed and ipfilter rules reloaded with the following
commands:
# cd /usr/src/sys/modules/ipfilter
# make all install
# kldunload ipl && kldload ipf && ipf -Fa -f /etc/ipf.rules
Otherwise, if ipfilter is compiled into the kernel, a new kernel will
need to be compiled and installed and the system will have to be
rebooted for the changes to take effect.
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CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of FreeBSD for the
information contained in this bulletin.
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