Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 – Garbage Collector Attribute Type Confusion (MS16-063)

  • 作者: Skylined
    日期: 2016-06-21
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  • 来源:https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39994/
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    With [MS16-063] Microsoft has patched [CVE-2016-0199]: a memory
    corruption bug
    in the garbage collector of the JavaScript engine used in Internet
    Explorer 11.
    By exploiting this vulnerability, a website can causes this garbage
    collector
    to handle some data in memory as if it was an object, when in fact it
    contains
    data for another type of value, such as a string or number. The garbage
    collector code will use this data as a virtual function table (vftable)
    in order
    to make a virtual function call. An attacker has enough control over
    this data
    to allow execution of arbitrary code.
    
    Known affected software and attack vectors
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    + **Microsoft Internet Explorer 11** (all versions before the June 2016
    patch)
    
    An attacker would need to get a target user to open a specially crafted
    webpage. Disabling JavaScript should prevent an attacker from
    triggering the
    vulnerable code path.
    
    Repro
    -----
    I've created two separate html files that can be used to reproduce this
    issue
    and shows control over a 32-bit vftable pointer in x86 versions of MSIE or a
    partial control over a 64-bit vftable pointer in x64 versions.
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    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7">
    <script>
    oElement = document.createElement("IMG");
    var oAttr = document.createAttribute("loop");
    oAttr.nodeValue = oElement;
    oElement.loop = 0x41424344; // Set original value data to 44 43 42 41
    oElement.setAttributeNode(oAttr); // Replace oElement with original value data
    oElement.removeAttributeNode(oAttr);
    CollectGarbage(); // Use original value data as address 0x41424344 of a vftable
    </script>
    
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    Description
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    When `setAttributeNode` is used to set an attribute of a HTML element,
    and the
    `Attr` node's `nodeValue` is not a valid value, this `nodeValue` is set
    to the
    value the attribute had before the call. This can happen for instance
    when you
    try to set an attribute that must have a string or number value by using an
    `Attr` node with a HTML element as its `nodeValue` (as this is not a
    string or
    number). The HTML element in `nodeValue` is replaced with the string or
    number
    value the attribute had before the call to `setAttributeNode`.
    
    If the `Attr` node is then removed using `removeAttributeNode` and the
    garbage
    collector runs, the code appears to assume the nodeValue still contains an
    object, rather than the string or number it has been changed into. This
    causes
    the code to use the data for the string or number value as if it was a C++
    object. It attempts to determine a function pointer for a method from the
    object's virtual function table before calling this function using the
    pointer.
    
    If the previous value is a string, the character data from the string is
    used
    to calculate the function pointer. If the previous value is a number,
    the value
    of the number is used. This provides an attacker with a large amount of
    control
    over the function pointer and may allow execution of arbitrary code.
    
    Scanner
    -------
    I build a "scanner" to analyze this issue and help create two
    proof-of-concept
    files that show control over the vftable pointer. More details and the
    source
    for these can be found on my blog at http://blog.skylined.nl.
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