{"id":17630,"date":"2018-11-01T13:30:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T13:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/welcome-back-ping-of-death-it-has-been-a-few-months-now-its-apples-turn-to-do-the-patching\/"},"modified":"2018-11-01T13:30:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T13:30:31","slug":"welcome-back-ping-of-death-it-has-been-a-few-months-now-its-apples-turn-to-do-the-patching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/welcome-back-ping-of-death-it-has-been-a-few-months-now-its-apples-turn-to-do-the-patching\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome back, &#8216;ping of death&#8217;, it has been&#8230; a few months. Now it&#8217;s Apple&#8217;s turn to do the patching"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2016\/11\/03\/patch_bandaid_dressing.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>When Apple took to the stage for its <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/10\/30\/apple_launch_kill_laptop\/\">latest slew of product announcements<\/a>, there were a bunch of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/10\/30\/apple_security_updates\/\">security fixes disclosed<\/a> at the same time with far less fanfare.<\/p>\n<p>At least one of these, discovered by Semmle security research engineer Kevin Backhouse, is a treat: your iThings can be crashed with what amounts to a &#8220;ping of death&#8221;, and there&#8217;s little you can do beyond installing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-gb\/HT201222\">this week&#8217;s updates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Backhouse made his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lgtm.com\/blog\/apple_xnu_icmp_error_CVE-2018-4407\">disclosure<\/a> on 30 October, the same day as Apple emitted the patched code.<\/p>\n<p>The bug itself, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cve.mitre.org\/cgi-bin\/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-4407\">CVE-2018-4407<\/a>, is a threat to users on public hotspots, where they&#8217;re visible to an attacker. The miscreant need only send an ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) packet to the victim to crash the target, there&#8217;s no user interaction needed, and Backhouse also wrote that &#8220;it may be possible to exploit the buffer overflow to execute arbitrary code in the kernel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>While Backhouse didn&#8217;t try to turn the crash into an exploit proof-of-concept, he reasoned that it could be made a remote code execution because the attacker could control the size and content of the heap overflow.<\/p>\n<p>The target doesn&#8217;t need to have ports open, Backhouse claimed, and because merely receiving the crafted packet will trigger the bug, antivirus won&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aV7yEemjexk\" data-media=\"x-videoplayer\">Youtube Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bug exists in Apple&#8217;s XNU networking code (used in both iOS and macOS). In the <code>icmp_error<\/code> function, there&#8217;s a header that can be made too large for the destination&#8217;s buffer (Backhouse wrote that the crash happens if the <code>icmplen<\/code> value is greater than 84 bytes).<\/p>\n<p>For a while, it looked to <em>El Reg<\/em> that bugs like this had been eradicated, like smallpox. Alas, that wasn&#8217;t to be: there was one in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2013\/08\/14\/ms_august_patch_tuesday_2013\/\">Patch Tuesday in 2013<\/a>; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/06\/02\/cisco_warns_of_ipv6_dos_vulnerability\/\">Cisco<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/06\/08\/juniper_yes_ipv6_pingofdeath_hits_junos_os_too\/\">Juniper<\/a> were stung by a bug, and BlackNURSE showed up <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/11\/14\/its_2016_and_a_ping_of_death_can_still_be_a_thing\/\">later that year<\/a>; and Intel had to fix a ping-of-death in Puma modems <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/08\/14\/intel_puma_modem\/\">last August<\/a>. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p class=\"wptl btm\"><span>Sponsored:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.co.uk\/tl\/1787\/-6625\/following-bottomlines-journey-to-the-hybrid-cloud?td=wptl1787\">Following Bottomline\u2019s journey to the Hybrid Cloud<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"http:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/11\/01\/welcome_back_ping_of_death_we_havent_seen_you_in_span_classstrikeyearsspan_months\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel-level ICMP buffer overrun quietly fixed as all eyes on this week&#8217;s launchfest When Apple took to the stage for its latest slew of product announcements, there were a bunch of security fixes disclosed at the same time with far less fanfare.\u2026 READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-register"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Welcome back, &#039;ping of death&#039;, it has been... a few months. 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