Full Disclosure: Re: Bypassing Cisco's ICMPv6 Router Advertisement Guard feature

[Enno Rey <erey () ernw de>]

Hi,

some Wireshark excerpts on the attack Marc describes below can be found here:

http://www.insinuator.net/2011/05/yet-another-update-on-ipv6-security-some-notes-from-the-ipv6-kongress-in-frankfurt/

thanks

Enno


On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:49:05AM +0200, Marc Heuse wrote:
> To bypass the Router Advertisement Guarding feature in the (very few)
> Cisco switches (and images) that support it:
>
> Attack:
> =======
> Make the evil Router Advertisement fragmented and put the ICMPv6 into
> the second fragment, eg. by putting a very large Destination extension
> header before the ICMPv6 part.
>
> So the packets look like:
>
> Fragment 1:
>  IPv6 Header
>  Fragmentation Header
>  Destination Header (~1400 bytes)
>
> Fragment 2:
>  IPv6 Header
>  Fragmentation Header
>  Destination Header (continued with some bytes)
>  ICMPv6 with RA
>
>
> Workaround:
> ===========
> To prevent this attack, put the following IPv6 ACL on all ports:
>
>     deny ip any any undetermined-transport
>
> This will drop all packets where the switch is not able to identify the
> IPv6 transport type like in this attack. Note that this might drop some
> unusual valid traffic too.
>
>
> Workaround Bypass:
> ==================
> Craft the packets in a way so that the first fragment has an ICMPv6 echo
> request and the second fragment overwrites the first fragment with the
> ICMPv6 router advertisement.
>
> Fragment 1:
>  IPv6 Header
>  Fragmentation Header
>  Destination Header (8 bytes)
>  ICMPv6 with Echo Request
>
> Fragment 2:
>  IPv6 Header
>  Fragmentation Header with offset == 1 (equals position of 8th byte ==
> start of Echo Request in first fragment)
>  ICMPv6 with RA
>
> Note that the handling of overlapping fragments differs between
> platforms, some take the first fragment received, others the latest, so
> send the packets accordingly to your target.
>
>
> Hackers win again. Sorry Cisco.
> Have fun with IPv6!
>
> Greets,
> Marc
>
> P.S. Cisco is informed, they "accept the risk" ...
> P.P.S. thc-ipv6 v1.6 was released 10 days ago :-)
>
> --
> Marc Heuse
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>
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