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		 NetBSD Security Advisory 2008-013

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Topic:		IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol
Version:	NetBSD-current:		affected

		NetBSD 4.0.*:		not affected

		NetBSD 4.0:		affected

		NetBSD 3.1.*:		affected

		NetBSD 3.1:		affected

		NetBSD 3.0.*:		affected

		NetBSD 3.0:		affected
Severity:	Denial of service
Fixed:		NetBSD-current:		July 31, 2008

		NetBSD-4-0 branch:	October 03, 2008

			(4.0.1 includes the fix)

		NetBSD-4 branch:	October 03, 2008

			(4.1 will include the fix)

		NetBSD-3-1 branch:	October 03, 2008

			(3.1.2 will include the fix)

		NetBSD-3-0 branch:	October 03, 2008

			(3.0.4 will include the fix)

		NetBSD-3 branch:	October 03, 2008

			(3.2 will include the fix)
Abstract

========
An attacker may be able to forge IPv6 routing entries to intercept network

traffic or cause a denial of service attack.
This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2008-2476 and CERT

Vulnerability Note VU#472363.
Technical Details

=================
An attacker on a local network (i.e. the messages will not be forwarded by

routers) can send a ICMPv6 neighbor solicitation message to a router which

will result in a modification of the victims routing information.  It may be

then possible for the attacker intercept network traffic or cause a denial

of service.
Solutions and Workarounds

=========================
Only kernels compiled with the following option are vulnerable to this issue:
	options INET6
As a temporary workaround recompile the kernel with the above option

commented out.  The default NetBSD GENERIC kernels have this

option enabled.
In addition to this the following work arounds may also be used:
* Use application level encryption (e.g. SSH, HTTPS) to protect sensitive

  network traffic.

* Use network firewalls to block any malicious ICMPv6 neighbor solicitation

  messages.
For all NetBSD versions, you need to obtain fixed kernel sources,

rebuild and install the new kernel, and reboot the system.
The fixed source may be obtained from the NetBSD CVS repository.

The following instructions briefly summarise how to upgrade your

kernel.  In these instructions, replace:
  ARCH     with your architecture (from uname -m), and

  KERNCONF with the name of your kernel configuration file.    
To update from CVS, re-build, and re-install the kernel:
        # cd src

	# cvs update sys/netinet6/nd6_nbr.c sys/netinet6/in6.c \

		sys/netinet6/in6_var.h

        # ./build.sh kernel=KERNCONF

        # mv /netbsd /netbsd.old

        # cp sys/arch/ARCH/compile/obj/KERNCONF/netbsd /netbsd

        # shutdown -r now
For more information on how to do this, see:    
   http://www.NetBSD.org/guide/en/chap-kernel.html
Thanks To

=========
Matt Thomas for the fix.

David Miles is credited with discovering this issue.
Revision History

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	2008-10-27	Initial release
More Information

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Advisories may be updated as new information becomes available.

The most recent version of this advisory (PGP signed) can be found at

  ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-013.tx...
Information about NetBSD and NetBSD security can be found at

http://www.NetBSD.org/ and http://www.NetBSD.org/Security/.
Copyright 2008, The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.

Redistribution permitted only in full, unmodified form.
$NetBSD: NetBSD-SA2008-013.txt,v 1.3 2008/10/27 19:47:21 adrianp Exp $
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