CamShot Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:1685

Info

CamShot Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 1685
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2000-0836
Remote: Yes
Local: Yes
Published: Sep 15 2000 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 03:56AM
Credit: This vulnerability was discovered by Beyond Security's SecuriTeam and posted to Bugtraq on Fri, 15 Sep 2000.
Vulnerable: BroadGun Software CamShot WebCam 2.6 Trial Version
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

CamShot Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

CamShot is a Windows 95/98/2000/NT web server that serves up web pages containing time stamped images captured from a video camera. The images can be viewed from anywhere on the network with a web browser. CamShot works with Video For Windows compatible video equipment. Certain trial versions of this software contain a possibly exploitable remote buffer overflow by way of a overly long user supplied 'Authorization' password.

It is not known if supported commercial versions of this software contain the same vulnerability.

Exploit / POC

CamShot Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

This example is taken from the advisory on this subject which is included in it's entirety in the 'Credit' section of this vulnerability:


Example:

GET / HTTP/1.1<enter>
Authorization: Basic ['a'x325]<enter><enter>

Solution / Fix

CamShot Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
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References

CamShot Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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