Risk: low.

I. BACKGROUND

AnywhereUSB/5 provides five USB ports, which deliver the same Plug and Play user experience as onboard USB ports.
 
Software drivers are loaded onto a host PC or server, enabling remote devices to communicate with the host, without changing existing application software. Peripheral devices can be centrally managed and monitored from a remote server or PC via an IP address.

 http://www.digi.com/products/usb/anywhereusb.jsp

II. DESCRIPTION

This low-risk vulnerability in AnywhereUSB/5 1.80.00 allows an attacker to forge an AnywhereUSB server, so that if a client connects to it, it can be hit with a denial of service attack.

This integer overflow in version 1.80.00 of AnywhereUSB/5 drivers package distributed for Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP and 2003.
could allow attackers to Bugcheck (BSOD) currently connected clients on demand, or any new client upon connection.

The problem exists within the parsing of USB string descriptors.
A malformed string descriptor that in its header specifies a size of 1 byte, will cause a memory copy loop to go behind allocated memory range.

This will result in a Bugcheck (BSOD) within the client computer driver.

III. ANALYSIS

Successful exploitation allows an attacker to crash the client computer and cause a Bugcheck (BSOD) on demand.

Exploitation is possible in two ways: by sending a specially crafted string descriptor to the client or
by attaching a maliciously crafted USB device to the hub.

IV. DETECTION

Safend has confirmed that AnywhereUSB/5 drivers version 1.80.00 is vulnerable.
It is suspected that earlier versions of AnywhereUSB/5 may also vulnerable.

V. WORKAROUND

Avoid plugging unknown USB devices into an AnywhereUSB/5 hub.

Apply strict firewalls rules, to prevent clients from connecting to a malicious AnywhereUSB/5 server, which could in turn send the malformed string descriptor to the client via TCP/IP.

VI. VENDOR RESPONSE

SecuriTeam was asked to assist the researchers with contacting
Digi International.

Reported to vendor: 24th of July, 2006.
Vendor response: 25th of July, 2006.

Vendor's official response:
"The AnywhereUSB product is used with commercial USB peripheral devices on dedicated point to point IP connections, almost always on non-public local area networks. The likelihood of any such USB device producing a USB descriptor corrupted in precisely this way is extremely unlikely. This error will be corrected in a future driver release."

VII. CVE INFORMATION

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the
name CVE-2006-4459 to this issue.

VIII. CREDIT

This vulnerability was discovered by Itzik Kotler, Safend.

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