Windows 2019 Server getting Invalid signature with Samba 4.7.11

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue Jul 14 18:33:20 UTC 2020


On 14/07/2020 19:26, Krishna Harathi via samba-technical wrote:
> I am continuing to investigate why a client is getting an “invalid signature” error.
>
> Sequence of events
>
>    *   Smbd generated a STATUS_NETWORK_SESSION_EXPIRED for a read request
>    *   Client requested for a session (re)setup of the current/existing section (shown below)
>    *   Smbd responded with STATUS_SUCCESS but response not signed (signature with zeros) (shown below)
>    *   Windows SMBClient noted the “invalid signature” event (disruptive to client application)
>    *   Next, there was a new session setup request
>    *   Followed by smbd response with STATUS_SUCCESS with signature
>
>  From the Windows client event log, I see that there is a SMBClient/security event ID 31013  “the signing validation failed” corresponding to the time when smbd sent the session re-setup request. This caused the disconnect and disruption to application.
>
>  From the tcpdump, I see that this disconnect is followed by a new session setup request and a smbd setup response that had the response signed as expected. As far as I can tell the re-setup and the new-setup request has the same session and security parameters and flags (except for the non-zero sessionID in the re-setup request).
>
> My question at this time is (I am not an expert in this area), is the signature expected in the re-setup of existing section? Is there a issue/fix in smbd in this area?
>
> Any help in this issue is appreciated. I am working on re-creating this issue in-house, so will have more details. Please let me know what else to provide that will help.
>
> Re-setup request
>
> Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port: 27677, Dst Port: 445, Seq: 165006660, Ack: 277437573, Len: 1893
> NetBIOS Session Service
>      Message Type: Session message (0x00)
>      Length: 1889
> SMB2 (Server Message Block Protocol version 2)
>      SMB2 Header
>          ProtocolId: 0xfe534d42
>          Header Length: 64
>          Credit Charge: 1
>          Channel Sequence: 0
>          Reserved: 0000
>          Command: Session Setup (1)
>          Credits requested: 0
>          Flags: 0x00000010, Priority
>          Chain Offset: 0x00000000
>          Message ID: Unknown (7934934)
>          Process Id: 0x0000feff
>          Tree Id: 0x00000000
>          Session Id: 0x00000000da3fcdd8
>              [Authenticated in Frame: 309144]
>          Signature: 00000000000000000000000000000000
>          [Response in: 309144]
>      Session Setup Request (0x01)
>          [Preauth Hash: 9a815bcc876ca46f7727e17e42381a43e8229fde444c55a1…]
>          StructureSize: 0x0019
>              0000 0000 0001 100. = Fixed Part Length: 12
>              .... .... .... ...1 = Dynamic Part: True
>          Flags: 0
>              .... ...0 = Session Binding Request: False
>          Security mode: 0x01, Signing enabled
>              .... ...1 = Signing enabled: True
>              .... ..0. = Signing required: False
>          Capabilities: 0x00000001, DFS
>          Channel: None (0x00000000)
>          Previous Session Id: 0x0000000000000000
> [Packet size limited during capture: SMB2 truncated]
>
>
> Re-setup response –
>
> Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port: 445, Dst Port: 27677, Seq: 277437573, Ack: 165008553, Len: 239
> NetBIOS Session Service
>      Message Type: Session message (0x00)
>      Length: 235
> SMB2 (Server Message Block Protocol version 2)
>      SMB2 Header
>          ProtocolId: 0xfe534d42
>          Header Length: 64
>          Credit Charge: 1
>          NT Status: STATUS_SUCCESS (0x00000000)
>          Command: Session Setup (1)
>          Credits granted: 1
>          Flags: 0x00000011, Response, Priority
>          Chain Offset: 0x00000000
>          Message ID: Unknown (7934934)
>          Process Id: 0x0000feff
>          Tree Id: 0x00000000
>          Session Id: 0x00000000da3fcdd8
>              [Authenticated in Frame: 309144]
>          Signature: 00000000000000000000000000000000
>          [Response to: 309142]
>          [Time from request: 0.003150000 seconds]
>      Session Setup Response (0x01)
>          [Preauth Hash: 9a815bcc876ca46f7727e17e42381a43e8229fde444c55a1…]
>          StructureSize: 0x0009
>              0000 0000 0000 100. = Fixed Part Length: 4
>              .... .... .... ...1 = Dynamic Part: True
>          Session Flags: 0x0000
>              .... .... .... ...0 = Guest: False
>              .... .... .... ..0. = Null: False
>              .... .... .... .0.. = Encrypt: False
>          Blob Offset: 0x00000048
>          Blob Length: 163
>          Security Blob: a181a030819da0030a0100a10b06092a864882f712010202…
>              GSS-API Generic Security Service Application Program Interface
>                  Unknown header (class=2, pc=1, tag=1)
>                      [Expert Info (Warning/Protocol): Unknown header (class=2, pc=1, tag=1)]
>                          [Unknown header (class=2, pc=1, tag=1)]
>                          [Severity level: Warning]
>                          [Group: Protocol]
>
> Regards.
> Krishna Harathi
>
>
> From: Krishna Harathi <krishna.harathi at storagecraft.com>
> Date: Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 4:25 PM
> To: Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical <samba-technical at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: Windows 2019 Server getting Invalid signature with Samba 4.7.11
>
> We are using Samba 4.7.11.
>
> Windows 2019  Server SQL Backup  workload is failing (randomly) after running 5 to 6 hours with “invalid signature”, an instance of failure shown below.
>
> Write on "XXXX.bak” failed: 0x80090006(Invalid Signature.)  Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Server YYYY, Line 1  BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.  Outcome: Failed  Duration: 08:06:20  Date and time: 2020-05-25 01:06:21     Date and time: 2020-05-25 01:06:21.  Process Exit Code 1.  The step failed.
>
> I searched Samba buzilla and found https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13427 but the fix is already in 4.7.11.
>
> Is this a known issue or fix? Any help to resolve this is appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards.
> Krishna Harathi
>
Could you try upgrading Samba, 4.7.11 is EOL as far as Samba is 
concerned and, as Stefan said, it has probably been fixed in a later 
version.

Rowland





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