Network Related Design Errors (26th CCC)

This is the video of the talk titled "cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/fuckups" given by Fabian Yamaguchi at the 26th Chaos Cmmunication Congress. You can view the presentation slides here.

Abstract: We will be presenting a number of previously undisclosed network-related design errors, ranging from data-link-layer bugs in Ethernet-drivers across issues in TCP/IP stacks all the way up to communication infrastructure components on layer 5. Our focus is on subtle mistakes, which do not fall into the memory-corruption category and yet in combination provide an attacker with a powerful bag of tricks. Built around a fictional average company network, we will tell the story of an attack making use of subtle bugs across the layers all of which are as of yet undisclosed. This will include a bug in an Ethernet-driver, which allows an attacker to bypass MAC- and IP-based filters, bugs in TCP-implementations that are assumed to be fixed but aren't, a web-cache which confuses itself and an instant-messenger, which was fooled by the protocol specification. All of these bugs share a common property: They are a consequence of insecure design and not of insecure coding-practices.

Author: Fabs currently studies Computer Engineering and works as a student assistant in the computer vision area at the TU Berlin. He also works for Recurity Labs as a vulnerability researcher where he gets payed for the fun things in life: breaking code. In his free time, he likes to eat and sleep.

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