Re: Possible DOS in Bind 8.2.2-P5

[Chris Tobkin <tobkin () INTERSEC COM>]

Shameless Plug:
Links to two good articles at SecurityPortal are available at:
http://www.interactiveinfosec.com/?openMenus=-1+10+60&selectedIndex=63


The links directly are:
SecurityPortal, Jay Beale
Foiling DNS Attacks (Nov. 2000)
http://www.SecurityPortal.com/cover/coverstory20001113.html

SecurityPortal, Sean Boran
Hardening the BIND DNS Server (Oct. 2000)
http://securityportal.com/cover/coverstory20001002.html

// Chris
tobkin () intersec com

-----Original Message-----
From: fire-eyes [mailto:sgtphou () FIRE-EYES YI ORG]
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 6:17 PM
To: VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM
Subject: Re: Possible DOS in Bind 8.2.2-P5


"Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)" wrote:
> Hi,
> playing with bind and ZXFR feature ( zone transfer compressed with a
possible insecure
> execlp("gzip", "gzip", NULL); ), i discovered a Denial Of Service against
Bind 8.2.2-P5 .
> By default Bind 8.2.2-P5 it's not compiled with ZXFR support unless you
define it with #define BIND_ZXFR
> so it will refuse any ZXFR transfer, because it doesn't support it.
> But now what appens? Look here...
>
> ################################
> zone to transfer: zone.pippo.com
> dns server:       dns.pippo.com 192.168.1.1
> me:               naif.gatesux.com 10.10.10.10
> I send a Zone Trasnfer request using "-Z" switch with means that i wish to
use ZXFR.
> dns.pippo.com does'nt support ZXFR and have "allow-transfer{}" not
configured, so everyone
> could ask him for *.zone.pippo.com ...
>
> <naif@naif> [~/bind/src822p5/bin/named-xfer] $ ./named-xfer  -z
zone.pippo.com  -d 9 -f pics -Z dns.pippo.com
> named-xfer[29297]: send AXFR query 0 to 192.168.1.1
> named-xfer[29297]: premature EOF, fetching "zone.pippo.com"
>
> On the server's log:
> Nov  7 11:19:09 dns.pippo.com: named[188510]: approved ZXFR from
[10.10.10.10].2284 for "zone.pippo.com"
> Nov  7 11:19:09 dns.pippo.com: named[188510]: unsupported XFR (type ZXFR)
of "zone.pippo.com" (IN) to [10.10.10.10].2284
> Then the server "*** CRASHED ***" .
>
> I should assume that bind 8.2.2-P5 it's vulnerable ( Please someone test
and confirm this kind of dos)
> and bind-9.0.0 has no support for ZXFR .
>
> <naif@naif> [~/bind] $ find src822p5/ -type f -exec grep -i zxfr \{\}  ';'
| wc -l
>     234
> <naif@naif> [~/bind] $ find bind-9.0.0/ -type f -exec grep -i zxfr \{\}
';' | wc -l
>       0
>
> A lot of DNS Server are misconfigured, and allow zone-transfer to any, so
they are dossable...
> naif
> naif () itapac net

I tried this on my bind 8.2.2-P5 on slackware linux 7.0.0 kernel 2.2.17
Intel p200 128M ram.

I tried this in two situations:

        a) named started as 'named -u nobody'
          1> This results in named being run as user nobody

        b) named started as 'ndc start'
          1> This results in named running as root, of course.

In neither of these situations did I find any problems after 10 minutes.

If you have other ways you would like me to try running the daemon, let
me know.

Also, I am rather new at bind. How might I go about denying *XFR's from
all but approved hosts?

Thank You

Joseph