Usenix 2019 extended paper

amit — Sun, 26 May 2019 14:06:47 +0000

From IP ID to Device ID and KASLR Bypass (Extended Version)

Authors: Amit Klein, Benny Pinkas

NOTE: this is the extended paper version. The original paper was accepted to Usenix Security 2019.

Abstract

IP headers include a 16-bit ID field. Our work examines the generation of this field in Windows (versions 8 and higher), Linux and Android, and shows that the IP ID field enables remote servers to assign a unique ID to each device and thus be able to identify subsequent transmissions sent from that device. This identification works across all browsers and over network changes. In modern Linux and Android versions, this field leaks a kernel address, thus we also break KASLR.

Our work includes reverse-engineering of the Windows IP ID generation code, and a cryptanalysis of this code and of the Linux kernel IP ID generation code. It provides practical techniques to partially extract the key used by each of these algorithms, overcoming different implementation issues, and observing that this key can identify individual devices. We deployed a demo (for Windows) showing that key extraction and machine fingerprinting works in the wild, and tested it from networks around the world.

Full paper link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10478

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