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IVIZ-08-007.txt

IVIZ-08-007.txt
Posted Aug 26, 2008
Authored by Jonathan Brossard | Site ivizsecurity.com

The password checking routine of DriveCrypt fails to sanitize the BIOS keyboard buffer before AND after reading passwords.

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IVIZ-08-007.txt

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[ iViZ Security Advisory 08-007 25/08/2008 ]
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iViZ Techno Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
http://www.ivizsecurity.com
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* Title: DriveCrypt Security Model bypass exploiting wrong BIOS API
usage
* Date: 25/08/2008
* Software: DriveCrypt

- --[ Synopsis:

The password checking routine of DriveCrypt fails to sanitize the
BIOS keyboard buffer before AND after reading passwords.

- --[ Affected Software:

* Secu Star's DriveCrypt Plus Pack v3.9 (possibly other versions also)

- --[ Technical description:

DriveCrypt's pre-boot authentication routines use the BIOS API to
read user input via the keyboard. The BIOS internally copies the
keystrokes in a RAM structure called the BIOS Keyboard buffer
inside the BIOS Data Area. This buffer is not flushed after use,
resulting in potential plain text password leakage once the OS
is fully booted, assuming the attacker can read the password at
physical memory location 0x40:0x1e. It is also possible for a root
user to reboot the computer by instrumenting the BIOS keyboard
buffer in spite of the full disk encryption.


- --[ Impact:

1) Plain text password disclosure.
Required privileges to perform this operation are OS dependant,
from unprivileged users under Windows (any), to root under most
Unix.

2) A privileged attacker able to write to the MBR and knowing the
password (for instance thanks to 1), is able to reboot the computer
in spite of the password prompted at boot time (and in spite of
disk encryption) by initializing the BIOS keybaord buffer with the
correct password (using an intermediary bootloader that will in turn
run DriveCrypt).

- --[ Full Technical Whitepaper

http://www.ivizsecurity.com/research/preboot/preboot_whitepaper.pdf

- --[ Vendor response:

* No Response from vendor in spite of multiple solicitations.

- --[ Credits:

This vulnerability was discovered by Security Researcher
Jonathan Brossard from iViZ Techno Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

- --[ Disclosure timeline:

* First private disclosure to vendor on July 15th 2008
* First Public disclosure at Defcon 16 on August 10th 2008

- --[ Reference:

http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory.html


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