Security testing
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There are mainly two way to view security on NFS :
- Functionality of security components: kerberos, spkm, lipkey ...
- Trust of NFSv4, with or without security components.
Each Security components (such as kerberos) should its own independant section. This section is on the second part : how can we be sure NFSv4 is secure. For now this page is mainly a reflection around this subject.
As far as I know there is one generic attack from a remote machine to a server. It uses buffers overflow/underflow to set excecutable code on the stack.
Others attacks are not generic, each attack depend on the imagination of the cracker :
- to use a function in a different way than the function was designed.
- to imitate the client or the server with a modified one.
In order to avoid security holes we need :
- to be sure the size of each buffer is checked
- to list all NFS functions that could be used in a different way than designed
- to be sure data sent by a modified client / server could not be used to access a server/client (for example : can anyone modify delegated data to create a problem on the server? )
Security testing tools:
http://www.opensourcetesting.org/security.php
