Remote POST Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Pserv.

["dong-h0un U" <xploit () hackermail com>]

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        INetCop Security Advisory #2002-0x82-005
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* Title: Remote POST Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Pserv (Pico Server).


0x01. Description


Pico server is very small webserver of C language base that support several platforms.
Webserver has very interesting function that watch buffer overflow basically.
( Developer seems to hate very buffer overflow. ;-} )
Can confirm as following.

__
bash# cat *.c | grep flow
        printf("Buffer overflow on document path parsing\n");
                { /* checking for buffer overflow */
                    printf("Buffer overflow on POST read\n");
                    if (totalRead > BUFFER_SIZE) /* checking for buffer overflow */
                        printf("Buffer overflow on request read\n");
bash#
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There's thing which among them, there is no substantiality.

Indicate wrong part in 184 line to main.c.
This part is POST method area.

   __
   178      reqSize = strlen(req);
   179      i = 0; j = 0;
   180      while (i < MAX_REQUEST_LINES && j < reqSize)
   181      {
   182          k = 0;
   183          while (req[j] != '\n')
   184              token[k++] = req[j++]; // here.
   185          token[k-1] = '\0';   /* the line read ends with an \n we skipit and count it as read */
   186          j++;
   187          strcpy(reqArray[i], token);
   188          i++;
   189      }
   --

Through POST method, can attempt Denial of Service (DoS) Attack.


0x02. Vulnerable Packages


Vendor site: http://pserv.sourceforge.net/

Pserv 2.0 beta 3
-pserv-31-Oct-02.tar.Z
+MacOS X
+AIX
+NetBSD
+Linux

2.0 beta 2 
-pserv-20-Oct-02.tar.Z 
2.0 beta 1 
-pserv-15-Oct-02.tar.Z 
2.0 alpha 12 
-pserv-18-Sep-02.tar.Z
2.0 alpha 11 
-pserv-17-Sep-02.tar.Z
2.0 alpha 10 
-pserv-10-Sep-02.tar.Z
2.0 alpha 9
-pserv-09-Sep-02.tar.Z
2.0 alpha 8
-pserv-04-Sept-02.tar.Z
2.0 alpha 7
-pserv-29-Aug-02.tar.Z 
2.0 alpha 6 
-pserv-24-Aug-02.tar.Z
2.0 alpha 5 
-pserv-22-Aug-02.tar.Z
2.0 alpha 4
-pserv-17-Aug-02.tar.Z
2.0 alpha 3
-pserv-11-Aug-02.tar.Z
2.0 alpha 2
-pserv-10-Aug02.tar.Z
2.0 alpha 1
-pserv-7-Aug-02.tar
1.0
-pserv1.0.tgz

* I did not other version exploit test. but, It may be weak.


0x03. Exploit


Do you want exploit code? Very regrettable. :-(
We don't want to compose DoS code.


0x04. Patch


=== http.patch ===

--- main.c      Tue Nov 19 16:48:40 2002
+++ main.patch.c        Tue Nov 19 16:15:51 2002
@@ -176,6 +176,9 @@
    
     /* we copy the header lines to an array for easier parsing */ 
     reqSize = strlen(req);
+
+    req[BUFFER_SIZE]='\n'; /* Limit! */
+
     i = 0; j = 0;
     while (i < MAX_REQUEST_LINES && j < reqSize)
     {

=== eof ===


P.S: Sorry, for my poor english.


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