Date: 10 Sep 2003 03:46:46 -0000
From: hUNTER 007 <door_hunt3r@...ckcodemail.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Winrar doesn't determine the actual size of compressed
    files+possibility of DoS attack on server!





---[ about WinRAR]---
Winrar (http://www.rarsoft.com/) is one of the most popular file 
compression utilities for Windows. 

--[summary]---
Winrar incorrectly determines the actual size of compressed files saved 
in .rar format by reading it's header information. 

--[details]--
Recently we managed to devise a technique to spoof the header and 
creating a valid CRC checksum. Later we found that Winrar only depends on 
it's header information and CRC check sum to determine the size and 
integrity of .rar files. Before uncompressing .rar files, Winrar pre-
allocates space according to the actual file size specified in the header 
to avoid fragmentation.But pre-allocation occurs without checking the 
available hdd space. Then it goes extracting, even if the hdd size is 
less than the size of the files.We did a test by extracting 1GB files in 
a hdd with 700MB free space.

Surprisingly, we later discover that even in detecting of header 
corruption WinRAR doesn't enforce to avoid extraction process. this lead 
WinRAR to believe that the actual size is correct .We managed to exploit 
this and create a proof of concept to demonstrate this problem by 
changing the actual file size in it's header. When it starts extracting 
it doesn't find any valid data in the archive and on the basis of it's 
header it attempts to extract 1 gigabyte of data and simply goes on 
writing "0x00" filling up valuable hdd space. 

--[Proof of concept]-- 
The proof of concept is a valid .rar file which is just 100 bytes but 
it's header has been forged to fool Winrar into thinking that it's a 1 
gigabyte file by forging it's header and creating a valid CRC checksum. 
All versions of Winrar (upto 3.20 - latest version till date) seem to be 
vulnerable.

The proof of concept of .rar file can be obtained from the following URL: 
http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/test123.zip 
If you extract the file Winrar will try to extract this 100 bytes .rar 
file trusting the information in it's header but not on the basis of it's 
data integrity.

--[Background Information]--
This bug was originally discovered by hUNT3R, a member of 01 Security 
Sumbission. The vendor was notified via email. Further discussion took 
place in 01 Security Sumbission's forum with the developer of Winrar 
(Eugene Roshal) : 
URL: http://www.ysgnet.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=341&t=324#reply_341 

---[about 01 security submission]---
01s.s is a small group having experience as security specialists, 
programmers and system administrators
http://www.ysgnet.com/hn.
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An email from full-disclosure with bug verification and patch!
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This looks very bad to me.

I've tested it on a Linux machine with unrar 2.71, which comes with most
 distributions. Same unrar binary is used by anti-virus scanner.

Result is the following:

$ unrar x -v test123.rar

UNRAR 2.71 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2000 Eugene Roshal


Extracting from test123.rar

Extracting  MAIL.DWN
MAIL.DWN             - CRC failed
Total errors: 1

As CRC failed, unrar will delete this file immediately but during the 
extraction it'll create nice 1GB file.

As I wrote above, same unrar binary is used by anti-virus scanner 
(amavisd-new
 in this case), so this is creates a very nasty possibility of DoS 
attack on servers.

Solution is to download and install the latest version from WinRAR's 
Website:

<http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm>

Particulary, for Unix/Linux get it's source:

<http://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-3.2.3.tar.gz>

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