Linux Orinoco drivers information leakage

Advisory Text :

Linux Orinoco Driver Information Leakage Vulnerability
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I. Background
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco

The Linux orinoco driver, included in the kernel since 2.4.3 and in David
Hinds' pcmcia-cs package since 3.1.30 supports a large number of wireless
NICs
based on the Lucent/Agere Hermes, Symbol Spectrum24 and Intersil/Conexant
Prism 2/2.5/3 chipsets.

II. Description
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Due to padding of Ethernet frames with uninitialized data, it is possible
to
remotely obtain parts of memory which may contain sensitive information
[1].

Following sample dumps illustrate the problem:

13:21:58.901746 arp reply 192.168.0.179 is-at 00:09:5b:3e:ca:d4
0x0000: 0001 0800 0604 0002 0009 5b3e cad4 c0a8 ..........[>....
0x0010: 00b3 0012 f0bb 22ae c0a8 001f 6f73 743a ......".....ost:
0x0020: 7e20 2d20 5368 656c 6c20 4e6f 2e20 7353 ~.-.Shell.No..sS
0x0030: 8071 .q

13:21:17.811889 arp reply 192.168.0.179 is-at 00:09:5b:3e:ca:d4
0x0000: 0001 0800 0604 0002 0009 5b3e cad4 c0a8 ..........[>....
0x0010: 00b3 0012 f0bb 22ae c0a8 001f 2054 7261 ......"......Tra
0x0020: 636b 3035 2e6d 7033 2028 343a 3139 1b62 ck05.mp3.(4:19.b
0x0030: 6dd1 m.

Attacker can use arping(8) to send ARP requests to the target running
vulnerable orinoco drivers and observe contents of uninitialized memory in
the ARP replies.

III. Vendor status
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Developers of linux orinoco drivers where notified and the fix, which has
been
incorporated into 2.6.13.4 kernel, was issued.

Patch can be viewed here:
http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6/?cmd=filediff;node=feecb2ffde28639e60
ede769c6f817dc536c677b;file=drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c

IV. Disclosure timeline
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4/10/2005 - Issue discovered. Vendor notified.
4/10/2005 - Vendor response received along with the patch to remedy the
problem.
10/10/2005 - Confirmed that patch was incorporated into 2.6.13.4 kernel.

V. Acknowledgements
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thanks to Pavel Roskin for quick response and fix.

VI. References
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1. http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/atstake_etherleak_report
.pdf

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