Re: Verified evasion in Snort

[mwatchinski () sourcefire com]

This and other target base fragmentation evasions are the reason we re-wrote the fragmentation engine in Snort.

If you look at Judy Novak's Frag3 Development paper, Snort's latest fragmentation engine (frag3) supports target-based 
fragmentation policies for overlaps, ttl evasions, and timeouts. This can be configured on a per IP basis to allow 
exact emulation of how the end host handles fragmentation reassembly.

Here is a sample configuration that could be used for frag3. This configuration would handle the evasion outlined in 
the advisory.  This configuration is based on the 5 second timeout used in the PoC code provided.

        preprocessor frag3_engine: policy first \
        bind_to 10.2.1.0/24 \
        timeout 5 \
        detect_anomalies

> From our testing, Windows XP actually has a 1 minute timeout for fragments. The actual configuration to handle this 
> evasion would be the following:

        preprocessor frag3_engine: policy first \
        bind_to 10.2.1.0/24 \
        timeout 60 \
        detect_anomalies

For the VRT's detailed analysis of the PoC tool and the advisory please see:

http://www.snort.org/rules/docs/vrt/evasion_snort_v233.html


Cheers,
Matthew Watchinski
Director, Vulnerability Research
Sourcefire, Inc.