Re: A tool for crafting ESP packets

[Loki <loki () fatelabs com>]

SD--

Thank you for the much more detailed response regarding this matter. I found 
it funny that none of the man pages on the nmap homepage listed anything in 
regards to the keyword ESP. It looks like regarding that 
vulnerability/advisory the packet does not in fact contain actual ESP or AH 
headers, just the protocol number identifying it to be an ESP packet (in 
effect causing OpenBSD to crash because it can not handle "empty" AH/ESP 
packets.)

If this is in fact not the case and nmap does generate fully compliant IPSec 
packets, please let me know as this is definately functonality none of my 
other researchers, nor I, have ever seen in nmap.

P.S. If anyone has a tcpdump of those packets the AH/ESP packets nmap 
apparently throws out, I'd love to see them. Guess I could just check it out 
myself (heh). Laziness should be a sin.

Loki
www.fatelabs.com




On Sunday 25 November 2001 11:00 pm, samsi data wrote:
> Actually nmap does send malformd AH/ESP datagrams (or packets, not sure
> what else you would call them). Well, sort of. Do a tcpdump while doing an
> nmap IP Protocol scan and you will see zero length AH/ESP (IP protocol
> 51/50) datagrams (as well as every other IP protocol between 0 and 255)
> being sent to the target with the goal of eliciting an ICMP IP Protocol
> unreachable.
>
> There was vulnerability in OpenBSD's IPSEC implementation where you could
> crash the box with an Nmap IP Protocol scan that illustrates this issue.
> See http://securityfocus.com/bid/1723
>
> - s d
>
> > Can you give me a URL to where it says NMAP crafts ESP packets, as I've
> > read
> > all through the documentation and man page. Also, AH isn't a "packet" it
> > provides authentication mechanisms for IP datagrams and protection against
> > replay attacks.
> >
> > RFC 2402:
> > ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2402.txt
> >
> > Loki
> > www.fatelabs.com
> >
> > On Saturday 24 November 2001 04:44 pm, Nelson Brito wrote:
> > > I guess that the nmap BETA versions can send ESP, AH and a lot of
> >
> > anothers
> >
> > > protocol's packet.
> > >
> > > If you wanna do something differente,  just like customize the packets,
> >
> > use
> >
> > > the power, read the code, LUKE.
> > >
> > > Sem mais,
> >
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