bugtraq - Re: Squirrelmail Chpasswod bof

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Date: 19 Apr 2004 09:16:45 -0000
From: Peter Geissler <blasty@...kz.nl>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Squirrelmail Chpasswod bof


In-Reply-To: <200404170420.32857.matias@...ff.com.ar>

Hi,

Did u drink to much when writing this `advisory'? No seriously, you even made a typo in the title of your thread!
did you inform the people at Squirrelmail about this? I located the exact vuln in chpasspwd.c:
----
	char User[STR_MAX];
	char New_pw[50];
	char Old_pw[50];

	..

	sprintf(User,"%s",argv[1]);
	sprintf(Old_pw,"%s",argv[2]);
	sprintf(New_pw,"%s",argv[3]);
---

STR_MAX has a value of 100. So as you probably already have seen there occurs a stack based overflow when user, old_pw or new_pw is filled with to much bytes (which come from argv[], commandline). In your `exploitation example' you used local rights to exploits this. However, I think it's also possible to exploit without shell access, using the squirrelmail webinterface itself. I'm at work right now, but when I'm home I'll be looking into creating a PoC exploit for this one.

Best regards,
Peter "blasty" Geissler

P.S. The version of the chpasswd plugin found on the squirrelmail/SF page is still vulnerable to this bug, so I doubt you informed the people at squirrelmail..

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>Hi all
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>There is a boffer over flow in the chpasswd binary, distributed with the=20
>plugin. This allow to local's user to execute commands as a root.
>=2D--:::Prott:::---
>root@...o:/mnt/hosting/hack/bof# su webmaster
>webmaster@...o:/mnt/hosting/hack/bof$ ./exploit 166 5555 99999
>Using address: 0xbfffe325
>bash-2.05b$ ./chpasswd $RET asdf asdf
>The new password is equal to old password. Choose another password.
>sh-2.05b# id
>uid=3D0(root) gid=3D3(sys) groups=3D500(webmaster)
>sh-2.05b#
>=2D--:::end:::---
>
>Bye all
>
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