Peercast < 0.1211 - Format String

  • 作者: GulfTech Security
    日期: 2015-05-28
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  • 来源:https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43826/
  • Peercast Format String Vulnerability
    
    Vendor: peercast.org
    Product: Peercast
    Version: <= 0.1211
    Website: http://www.peercast.org/
    
    BID: 13808 
    CVE: CVE-2005-1806 
    OSVDB: 16906 
    SECUNIA: 15536 
    PACKETSTORM: 39355 
    
    Description:
    Peercast is a popular p2p streaming media server (similar to shoutcast). There is a serious security issue in peercast versions 0.1211 and earlier that may allow for an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote target with the privileges of the user running peercast (usually administrator) or crash the vulnerable server. There is an updated version of peercast available and all users should upgrade as soon as possible. 
    
    
    Format String Vulnerability:
    There is a very dangerous format string issue in peercast that may allow for an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote target with the privileges of the user running peercast or crash the vulnerable server. Below is an example of how this vulnerability can be exploited to crash a vulnerable server. 
    
    http://localhost:7144/html/en/index.htm%n 
    
    The problem occurs because of the way some error messages are handled. For example in the above example the peercast server receives a malformed request, so the error routine printed the URL, but the error print routine (because it was a printf type function call) then tries to parse the malicious url. 
    
    
    Solution:
    Thanks to Giles from Peercast for fixing this issue fast and releasing a patch in just a few hours. Now that is a quick turn around!
    http://www.peercast.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11596 
    
    
    Credits:
    James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team