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Advisory CA-2001-13

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CERT Advisory CA-2001-13 Buffer Overflow In IIS Indexing Service DLL

Original release date: June 19, 2001
Last revised: –
Source: CERT/CC

A complete revision history is at the end of this file.

Systems Affected

 * Systems running Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 with IIS 4.0 or IIS 5.0
   enabled
 * Systems running Microsoft Windows 2000 &#40;Professional, Server,
   Advanced Server, Datacenter Server&#41;
 * Systems running beta versions of Microsoft Windows XP

Overview

A vulnerability exists in the Indexing Services used by Microsoft IIS
4.0 and IIS 5.0 running on Windows NT, Windows 2000, and beta versions
of Windows XP. This vulnerability allows a remote intruder to run
arbitrary code on the victim machine.

Since specific technical details on how to create an exploit are
publicly available for this vulnerability, system administrators
should apply fixes or workarounds on affected systems as soon as
possible.

I. Description

There is a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in one of the ISAPI
extensions installed with most versions of IIS 4.0 and 5.0 (The
specific Internet/Indexing Service Application Programming Interface
extension is IDQ.DLL). An intruder exploiting this vulnerability may
be able to execute arbitrary code in the Local System security
context. This essentially can give the attacker complete control of
the victim system.

This vulnerability was discovered by eEye Digital Security. Microsoft
has released the following bulletin regarding this issue:

      http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-033.asp

Affected versions of Windows include Windows NT 4.0 (installed with
IIS 4.0 and Index Server 2.0), Windows 2000 (Server and Professional
with IIS 5.0 installed), and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server OEM
distributions; however, not all of these instances are vulnerable by
default. The beta versions of Windows XP are vulnerable by default.

The only precondition for exploiting this vulnerability is that an IIS
server is running with script mappings for Internet Data
Administration (.ida) and Internet Data Query (.idq) files. The
Indexing Services do not need to be running. As stated by Microsoft in
MS01-033:

      The buffer overrun occurs before any indexing functionality is
      requested. As a result, even though idq.dll is a component of
      Index Server/Indexing Service, the service would not need to be
      running in order for an attacker to exploit the vulnerability.
      As long as the script mapping for .idq or .ida files were
      present, and the attacker were able to establish a web session,
      he could exploit the vulnerability.

This vulnerability has been assigned the identifier CAN-2001-0500 by
the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) group:

      http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2001-0500

II. Impact

Anyone who can reach a vulnerable web server can execute arbitrary
code in the Local System security context. This results in the
intruder gaining complete control of the system. Note that this may be
significantly more serious than a simple "web defacement."

III. Solution

Apply a patch from your vendor

Apply patches for vulnerable Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 systems:

For Windows NT 4.0:

      http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/Release.asp?ReleaseID=30833

For Windows 2000 Professional, Server, and Advanced Server:

      http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/Release.asp?ReleaseID=30800

These patches supersede the ones previously provided in Microsoft
Security Bulletins MS01-025 and MS00-006.

Users of Windows 2000 Datacenter Server software should contact their
original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for patches. A list of OEM
providers may be found here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/datacenter/howtobuy/purchasing/oems.asp

Workarounds

Users of beta copies of Windows XP should upgrade to a newer version
of the software when it becomes available.

All affected versions of IIS/Indexing Services can be protected
against exploits of this vulnerability by removing script mappings for
for Internet Data Administration (.ida) and Internet Data Query (.idq)
files. However, such mappings may be recreated when installing other
related software components.

Appendix A. Vendor Information

Microsoft Corporation

The following documents regarding this vulnerability are available
from Microsoft:

      http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-033.asp

References

1. VU#952336: Microsoft Index Server/Indexing Service used by IIS
   4.0/5.0 contains unchecked buffer used when encoding double-byte
   characters CERT/CC, 06/19/2001,

   https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/952336

2. Additional advice on securing IIS web servers is available from

            http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/iis5chk.asp
            http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools.asp

Feedback concerning this document may be directed to Jeffrey S.
Havrilla.

This document is available from:

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-13.html

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Revision History
Jun 19, 2001: Initial Release