What does one need for this attack to work?

Can it only be launched by people in the exports ? Or can it be launched by
anyone?

Thanks

Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jared Stanbrough" <jareds (at) pdx (dot) edu [email concealed]>
To: <bugtraq (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 4:55 PM
Subject: Remote Linux Kernel < 2.4.21 DoS in XDR routine.

>
> Hello all,
>
> I have discovered a signed/unsigned issue in a routine responsible for
> demarshalling XDR data for NFSv3 procedure calls. As far as I can tell,
> this bug has existed since NFSv3 support was integrated. It has been
> silently fixed in 2.4.21.
>
> The bug is in the decode_fh routine of fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c under the kernel
> source tree.
>
> Vulnerable code:
>
> static inline u32 *
> decode_fh(u32 *p, struct svc_fh *fhp)
> {
> int size;
> fh_init(fhp, NFS3_FHSIZE);
> size = ntohl(*p++);
> if (size > NFS3_FHSIZE)
> return NULL;
>
> memcpy(&fhp->fh_handle.fh_base, p, size);
> fhp->fh_handle.fh_size = size;
> return p + XDR_QUADLEN(size);
> }
>
> Where p is a packet of attacker controlled XDR data. If size is made to be
> negative, the sanity check is passed and the malicious value is passed to
> memcpy. Due to the behavior of the kernel's memcpy, this will cause a very
> large copy in kernel space, resulting in an instant kernel panic.
>
> The attached code is a POC of this vulnerability. It requires that the
> vulnerable host has an exported directory available to the attacker. This
> is probably not the only way to manifest this bug, however.
>
> If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jared Stanbrough <jareds (at) pdx (dot) edu [email concealed]>
>

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