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HistoryApr 17, 2008 - 12:00 a.m.

Foxit Reader 2.2 two potentially exploitable bugs

2008-04-1700:00:00
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Hi all,

I would like to post here some
problems that i found in Foxit
Reader 2.2 software.

I sent to the company support
two depthly detailed descriptions
about these bugs with both pdfs
causing them. The answer
from the company was:

"Hello.

Both Foxit Reader and Adobe Reader cannot open the files you send us.
These files have been damaged.
Thanks much."

I downloaded the foxit reader 2.2
software today to test the pdf
files again. The crashses continue
there. The company seems to be not
very interested on these reports.
I hope these descriptions that
i will post here was interesting
for anyone.

Analysis 1:

http://www.vallejo.cc/proyectos/foxitreader1.htm

Autor: Javier Vicente Vallejo
Web: www.vallejo.cc

Abstract

Foxit Reader 2.2 is prone to a
vulnerability when a malformed
pdf is parsed.

Affcted versions

Tested with Foxit Reader 2.2,
Windows XP Media Center Sp2.

Analysis

The vulnerability occurs when
a malformed /ExtGState resource
is parsed. In this case the ExtGState
resource was supplanted with a /Font
resource, but the type of the resource
continued being ExtGState:

261 0 obj
<</Type /Page /Parent 126 0 R /MediaBox [0 0 259 408 ]/CropBox [0 0 531 666 ]/Resources <</ProcSet [/PDF /Text]
/ExtGState <</R7 7 0 R>>>> /Contents [20 0 R]>>
endobj

7 0 obj
<</FirstChaaa 1
/Type /Funt /FontDescriptor 23 0 R
/BaseFont /xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxoman,Italic
/Subtype /TrueType
/Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding
/LaitChar 211
/Wodths [ ]
>>
endobj

23 0 obj
<</zzz9рE /oooooo>>
endobj

Under these conditions it seems Foxit
allocates differents structures waiting
to complete that memory with the content
of the /ExtGState resource. However
when it finds fields associated with
a /Font resource, it tries to parse
them anyway, and it completes the memory
for that structures with incorrect
data. This situation occurs because some
functions (mainly the one located at
address 0x4d1ed0) are common functions
to parse any type of field for any type
of resource. So, when some fields of
a /Font dictionary are found under
a /ExtGState resource, the fields are
read and interpreted, and the allocated
structures are filled with incorrect data.

This facts cause different errors in
the execution. For example, this code:

004A6E04 C74424 04 000000>MOV DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+4],0
004A6E0C 0F84 9A000000 JE foxit_re.004A6EAC
004A6E12 8B41 08 MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[ECX+8]
004A6E15 48 DEC EAX
004A6E16 83F8 08 CMP EAX,8
004A6E19 0F87 8D000000 JA foxit_re.004A6EAC
004A6E1F FF2485 BC6E4A00 JMP DWORD PTR DS:[EAX*4+4A6EBC]

The instruction mov eax,[ecx+8].
Ecx+8 should contain a valid pointer,
but the content of that memory is the
value of the first name of the
dictionary of the object 23 0 obj.
We can control this value so we
can control [ecx+8], for example.

Modifying this dictionary name
with different values we find
crashes and invalid access at
different EIP. For example with
names with length under 8, it
uses the last bytes of the name
as a pointer at EIP = 0x4A6EE7.
With larger names it completes
the structure in a different
way and the behaviour is
different.

23 0 obj
<</zzzzzzz /oooooo>>
endobj

004A6EE7 8B41 08 MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[ECX+8]
004A6EEA 83E8 02 SUB EAX,2
004A6EED 74 23 JE SHORT foxit_re.004A6F12
004A6EEF 83E8 07 SUB EAX,7
004A6EF2 75 14 JNZ SHORT foxit_re.004A6F08
004A6EF4 8B41 14 MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[ECX+14]
004A6EF7 8B49 10 MOV ECX,DWORD PTR DS:[ECX+10]
004A6EFA 50 PUSH EAX
004A6EFB E8 20200000 CALL foxit_re.004A8F20

The code involved in this
vulnerability is complex, lot of
FPU and mathematical operations,
etc… It is difficult to find
correct values to exploit the
vulnerability, however i think
it is possible to exploit it by
choosing some appropiated values
for the input dictionaries and
using heap spraying to facilitate
the shellcode execution (heap
spraying could be possible using
javascript embedded into the own
pdf file. The supplied pdf file
uses javascript with some /Annots
events so we can do heap spraying
before the crash occured).

Analysis 2:

http://www.vallejo.cc/proyectos/foxitreader2.htm

Autor: Javier Vicente Vallejo
Web: www.vallejo.cc

Abstract

Foxit Reader 2.2 is prone to a
vulnerability when a malformed
pdf is parsed.

Affcted versions

Tested with Foxit Reader 2.2,
Windows XP Media Center Sp2.

Analysis

The vulnerability occurs when a
page with a malformed /XObject
resource is rotated (it works
if we add the /Rotate field
to the page too).

4 0 obj
<< /Type /Page
/Parent 3 0 R
/Rotate 170
/Contents [ 25 0 R ]
/Resources <<
/ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageB /ImageC ]
/XObject <</Im23 23 0 R>>/Font << /TT3 33 0 R >>>>
>>
endobj

23 0 obj
<</Length 11643/Filter/DCTDecode/Width -28986631481/Height 5/BitsPerComponent
8/ColorSpace/DeviceRGB/Type/#6eject/Name/?#4825#6#25n#00°#6e#6en#25n#72ВƒЙ#25n™#r3/Subtype/Image>>
stream

endstream
endobj

By modifying the values of width
and height fields, Foxit performs
invalid write memory access to
different memory addresses:

For example,
At EIP=51b896, width=-28986631481, height=5:

0051B88F 8B4C24 20 MOV ECX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+20]
0051B893 83C4 04 ADD ESP,4
0051B896 89443E 08 MOV DWORD PTR DS:[ESI+EDI+8],EAX (eax=0x0,esi=0x10c7fd8,edi=0x26f0020)
0051B89A 8B4424 10 MOV EAX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+10]
0051B89E 43 INC EBX
0051B89F 83C1 04 ADD ECX,4

At EIP=0x51b799, witdth=-87146603762, height=5:

0051B799 8937 MOV DWORD PTR DS:[EDI],ESI
0051B79B 7E 08 JLE SHORT FOXITR~1.0051B7A5
0051B79D 8977 04 MOV DWORD PTR DS:[EDI+4],ESI
0051B7A0 E9 1C010000 JMP FOXITR~1.0051B8C1
0051B7A5 DB4424 14 FILD DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+14]


witdth=-87146603762 EIP=51b799 write->4994e93c eax=0 ecx=c1a4027f edx=f5a60633 ebx=12efd0 esp=12ef18 ebp=12ef74 esi=0
edi=4994e93c
witdth=-69826555658 EIP=51b799 write->a82df00 eax=0 ecx=c181027f edx=fdc5c868 ebx=12efd0 esp=12ef18 ebp=12ef74 esi=0
edi=a82df00
witdth=-56992150114 EIP=51b799 write->16a509d8 eax=0 ecx=c194027f edx=fac27dcc ebx=13efd0 esp=13ef18 ebp=13ef74 esi=0
edi=16a509d8
witdth=-65571130766 EIP=51b799 write->1419ad20 eax=0 ecx=c192027f edx=fb62d4f6 ebx=13efd0 esp=13ef18 ebp=13ef74 esi=0
edi=1419ad20
witdth=-28986631481 EIP=51b896 write->37b8000 eax=0 ecx=10c7fd8 edx=0 ebx=431ff6 esp=13ef18 ebp=13ef74 esi=10c7fd8
edi=26f0020
witdth=-87146603762 EIP=51b799 write->497cd994 eax=0 ecx=c1a4027f edx=f5ac0a15 ebx=13efd0 esp=13ef18 ebp=13ef74 esi=0
edi=497cd994

With paimei framework and a py
script for randomizing the witdth,
i have got multiple invalid read
and write operations to completely
different memory addresses.

I have not exploited the vulnerability
yet, but it seems possible to exploit it.