Ethernet Driver Padding information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as very critical has been found in Ethernet Driver. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Padding. Performing a manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2003-0001. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present. This vulnerability is considered historic because of its background and reception. To fix this issue, it is recommended to deploy a patch.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Ethernet Driver (Hardware Driver Software) (version now known). This affects some unknown processing of the component Padding. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC) device drivers do not pad frames with null bytes, which allows remote attackers to obtain information from previous packets or kernel memory by using malformed packets, as demonstrated by Etherleak.

The bug was discovered 01/06/2003. The weakness was disclosed 03/28/2003 by Ofir Arkin with @stake (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at atstake.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2003-0001. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/19/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK. Due to its background and reception, this vulnerability has a historic impact.

A public exploit has been developed in Perl and been published 2 years after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 11 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 15260 (Debian DSA-423-1 : linux-kernel-2.4.17-ia64 - several vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Debian Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The security flaw can be detected with the following NASL code:

if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"kernel-doc-2.4.18", reference:"2.4.18-9")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"kernel-headers-2.4.18-1", reference:"2.4.18-8")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-386", reference:"2.4.18-8")) flag++;
The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 123506 (Oracle Solaris 10 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Third Party Bulletin - January 2015)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at securityfocus.com. A possible mitigation has been published 11 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (17372), Exploit-DB (26076), Tenable (15260), SecurityFocus (BID 6535†) and OSVDB (9962†). The entries VDB-68712, VDB-68703, VDB-68721 and VDB-68720 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 15260
Nessus Name: Debian DSA-423-1 : linux-kernel-2.4.17-ia64 - several vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 53694
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 311-1 (kernel)
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Patch: securityfocus.com

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01/06/2003 🔍
01/06/2003 +0 days 🔍
01/17/2003 +11 days 🔍
03/28/2003 +70 days 🔍
03/28/2003 +0 days 🔍
01/15/2004 +293 days 🔍
09/13/2004 +242 days 🔍
09/14/2004 +1 days 🔍
09/29/2004 +14 days 🔍
01/19/2025 +7417 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: atstake.com
Researcher: Ofir Arkin
Organization: @stake
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2003-0001 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2003-0001
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-27

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X-Force: 17372
SecurityFocus: 6535 - Multiple Vendor Network Device Driver Frame Padding Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Secunia: 7996 - Red Hat Linux Kernel Updates, Less Critical
OSVDB: 9962 - ZyXEL Prestige 681 ARP Request Packet Information Disclosure
SecurityTracker: 1031583
Vulnerability Center: 1369

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/28/2003 01:00
Updated: 01/19/2025 03:05
Changes: 03/28/2003 01:00 (91), 06/25/2019 18:08 (8), 03/08/2021 08:13 (3), 06/16/2024 17:47 (16), 01/19/2025 03:05 (3)
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