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  • Subject: FW: CERT Summary CS-98.02
  • From: Russ <Russ.CooperRC.ON.CA>
  • Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:29:18 -0500
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From: CERT Advisory [mailto:cert-advisorycert.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 1998 1:58 PM
To: cert-advisorycoal.cert.org
Subject: CERT Summary CS-98.02


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CERT* Summary CS-98.02 - SPECIAL EDITION
March 4, 1998


This special edition of the CERT Summary reports denial of service
attacks
targeting a vulnerability in the Microsoft TCP/IP stack.

Past CERT Summaries are available from
     ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/cert_summaries/

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Denial of service attacks targeting Windows 95/NT machines
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This special edition of the CERT Summary reports denial of service
attacks
targeting a vulnerability in the Microsoft TCP/IP stack. We have
received
reports from a number of sites and incident response teams indicating
that a
large number of machines were affected.

The attacks involve sending a pair of malformed IP fragments which are
reassembled into an invalid UDP datagram. The invalid UDP datagram
causes the
target machine to go into an unstable state. Once in an unstable state,
the
target machine either halts or crashes. We have received reports that
some
machines crashed with a blue screen while others rebooted.

Attack tools known by such names as NewTear, Bonk, and Boink have been
previously used to exploit this vulnerability against individual hosts;
however, in this instance, the attacker used a modified tool to
automatically
attack a large number of hosts.

The solution to protect Windows 95 and NT machines from this attack is
to
apply the appropriate Microsoft patch. The Microsoft patch, as well as
more
information about the vulnerability, can be found in the January 1998
Microsoft Market Bulletin entitled, "New Teardrop-like TCP/IP Denial of
Service Program" available from:

        http://www.microsoft.com/security/newtear2.htm

Although the first instance of this attack, which started March 2, 1998
appears to be over, keep in mind that the tools to launch this attack
are now
available and we expect to see more incidents of this type.


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