bugtraq - In-game server buffer-overflow in Jedi Academy 1.011

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Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 18:49:08 +0000
From: Luigi Auriemma <aluigi@...istici.org>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, bugs@...uritytracker.com,
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Subject: In-game server buffer-overflow in Jedi Academy 1.011



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                             Luigi Auriemma

Application:  Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
              http://www.lucasarts.com/products/jediacademy/
Versions:     <= 1.011
Platforms:    Windows, Linux and Mac
Bug:          buffer-overflow during the visualization of big messages
Exploitation: remote, versus server (in-game)
Date:         02 Apr 2005
Author:       Luigi Auriemma
              e-mail: aluigi@...istici.org
              web:    http://aluigi.altervista.org


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1) Introduction
2) Bug
3) The Code
4) Fix


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===============
1) Introduction
===============


Jedi Academy is a first person shooter that uses the Quake 3 engine,
it's developed by Raven Software (http://www.ravensoft.com) and has
been released in September 2003.


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2) Bug
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The game is affected by a buffer-overflow in the visualization function
called G_Printf().
This function uses a sprintf() with a local buffer of 1024 bytes where
it stores the text to display in the console so if an attacker sends a
big message (through the commands say and tell for example) the server
calls G_Printf() for visualizing a string like the following example:

  say: NICKNAME: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...aaaaaaaa\n

The result is that an attacker could execute malicious code on the
victim server.
The only limitation is that this is an in-game bug so the attacker must
have access to the server, if it's protected by password he must know
the keyword.


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3) The Code
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- download the following file:
    http://aluigi.altervista.org/poc/jamsgbof.cfg
- place it in the base folder of the game: GameData\base
- start a client and a server
- join the server
- go into the client console (shift + ~)
- type: /exec jamsgbof
- the server will crash with the return address overwritten with
  0x61616161


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4) Fix
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No fix.
The game "should" be no longer supported.


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--- 
Luigi Auriemma
http://aluigi.altervista.org