full-disclosure - Advisory 02/2004: Trillian remote overflows-> maybe this is off-topic, but...

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From: andrewg at d2.net.au (andrewg@...net.au)
Subject: Advisory 02/2004: Trillian remote overflows-> maybe this is off-topic, but...

Hi,

On the subject of trillian..

Well, for what its worth, there is a format string in the parsing of KILL
messages by trillian (:. requiring you have have oper or RW access to a
clients connection).

Attached is an exploit... not complete, something I was working on and
lost interest. (http://felinemenace.org/~andrewg/split_search.py might be
useful for other irc clients exploits for large shellcodes)..

There seems to be a race involved. The shellcode basically moves around
and gets mangled lots by the display thread or something. I was thinking
that straight ascii-shellcode would be the way to go, or a modification of
split search so it didn't use various stuff like - or < etc.

There is most likely an easier way of exploiting this bug, but *shrug*

Enjoy,
Andrew Griffiths

>> >    "What is Trillian?
>> >
>> >     Trillian is a skinnable, interoperable instant messaging client.
>> Grab the best IM client available on the Internet today!
>> >     Trillian .74 is completely free, with no spyware and no ads.
>> Over 10 million downloads can't be wrong!"
>>
>>"Completely free". Aha. Where is the source code and a suitable license
>> to modify and share modifications?
>>
>>"No spyware". Aha. How can we know without the source? Well, I guess we
>> have to take their word.
>
> No, you're free to reverse engineer Trillian (they might sue you,
> though).  Everything is "open source" if you know assembler.
>
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