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ARP hole in Windows NT/2000


From: Grzegorz Flak <Grzegorz.Flak () comarch pl>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 19:45:25 +0100

Hi,

I am not sure, if it is something new, but I think I found serious vulnerability in ARP implementation in WindowsNT/2000 (I checked it on NT4 SP6 and Win2000 SP1). The problem is when somebody whant to use "man in the middle" technik to evesdrop your traffic. This example was done with ettercap. To fill protect I use 'arp -s' to specify correct MAC for default geteway. So I had :
 10.10.1.4             00-b0-64-49-1e-01     static

then I use ettercap to capture my traffic to the gateway. Ofcourse I could see my POP3 pass ;) Then I checked arp table once again:

 10.10.1.4             00-01-02-23-85-e1     static

The MAC is different (this is MAC of my linux box). I checked the same on Solaris 2.7 and Linux 2.4.8 and they look unvulnerable. Is this already known vulnerabilty (I found indication of similar weakness, but that was on Windows 9x).

Any suggestions how to get rid off that.

Reagards




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