[eyeonsecurity.net] Incredimail allows automatic over writing offiles on your hard disk

From: Obscure - (obscureat_private-p.com)
Date: Fri May 11 2001 - 10:15:37 PDT

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    Advisory Title: Incredimail allows automatic over writing of files on your hard disk 
    
    Release Date: 05/08/2001
    
    
    Application: Incredimail
    
    
    Platform: Windows NT4
    Windows 2000
    Windows 9x/me
    
    
    Build: 1400185 .. possibly earlier builds as well
    
    
    Severity: Malicious users can easily over write system files.
    
    
    Author: Obscure^ [obscureat_private-p.com]
    
    
    Vendor Status: Did not respond to my e-mails. Maybe not interested, or asleep (?) ...
    
    
    Web: 
    
    http://irc.m0ss.com/eos/main.pl?main=advisories/incredimail.html&menu=menu/advisories.html (maybe wrapped)
    http://www.incredimail.com 
    
    
    
    Background.
    
    (extracted from 
    http://www.incredimail.com/english/what.html)
    
    IncrediMail is an advanced email program that offers you, 
    the user, an unprecedented interactive experience. With 
    IncrediMail you can tailor your emails according to your 
    mood and personality. Visual effects will entertain your 
    every sense. Go ahead. Express yourself like you never 
    did before!
    
    My comments: Incredimail does really look quite cool, with 
    animations similar to the e-mail on Mission Impossible,
    plus it's free.
    
    
    Problem.
    
    Users can specify the filename of the skin, notifyer, animation etc
    This is specified in a text file called Content.ini, which is 
    found in the compressed skin or animation. 
    By appending the traditional dot dot to the filename, malicious users 
    can easily over write any files on the same partition as Incredimail 
    is intalled to.
    The file is automatically downloaded and copied to the client 
    machine when it accesses a site or e-mail which starts a download 
    for the Incredimail file. If the file already exists it tries
    to over write it.
    
    See the exploit example.
    
    
    Exploit Example.
    
    http://irc.m0ss.com/eos/advisories/incredimailexploit
    This webpage will simply create a file on C: (depends on which
    partition you installed Incredimail) named Obscure.dat.
    
    
    
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