Re: EEYE: Macromedia Shockwave Flash Malformed Header Overflow
I've downloaded this fixed version, but it seems to be vulnerable to something I've discovered last week: if you take a .swf and rot13 encode it (not all of it, so the headers are not messed up), you can crash the user's browser. There are quite literally a thousand ways to crash the Macromedia Flash player (at least the version in use a year ago, when I was dealing with it). The majority of mistakes one makes, and bugs one finds, when attempting to create an SWF-writing application will kill the player: about a quarter of them will crash the player (and browser), the remainder mostly cause the player's memory usage to shoot up to about 40-70mb and then hang. A surprisingly large number of these faults can be triggered just using the Macromedia SWF SDK, without any mucking around with the binary SWF files, although you do have to fix a number of bugs in the SDK before you can get to that stage (which I won't go into here - Macromedia seem to have made a habit of suing anyone who tries to distribute bugfixes for their SDK). Anyway, getting back to the security issues, while crashing the browser is definitely unacceptable I'm not yet sure if any of those crashes would be exploitable, as most of them seem to be due to problems with their algorithms (as opposed to say simple string buffer overflows) - stack overflows due to recursion, null pointer violations, that kind of thing. Further experimentation would be warranted. I'd recommend starting with the audio compression, image compression, and font handling, as since they involve buffer decompression etc. there's a better chance they're susceptible to buffer overflows. Cheers, Will ___ Will Bryant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]cell +64 21 655 443 http://www.core-dev.co.nz/ Personal: http://carcino.gen.nz/ [PGP 0x96A7F40A, FP 827F A2A9 C718 106D 8F80 E16E A244 D5F2 96A7 F40A]
Re: EEYE: Macromedia Shockwave Flash Malformed Header Overflow
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 05:44:27PM -0400, Mike Chambers wrote: The linux and solaris updates will be avaliable later today. You will be able to download it at: www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer/ I've downloaded this fixed version, but it seems to be vulnerable to something I've discovered last week: if you take a .swf and rot13 encode it (not all of it, so the headers are not messed up), you can crash the user's browser. I've tested it on Netscape 4.77 with Flash 4.0 r12 and Galeon 1.2.5, which is based on Mozilla 1.0, with Flash 5.0 r50 (both running on Debian unstable) and IE 6.0 (on Windows 2000) and all of them crash instantly when I try to open the rot13-garbled file. Check it out: http://alternex.com.br/~claviola/sample1.swf (original) http://alternex.com.br/~claviola/sample2.swf (modified) -- Carlos Laviola [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: EEYE: Macromedia Shockwave Flash Malformed Header Overflow
Is there anyway to turn off the Flash ActiveX control for Windows? I've tried removing it from my system and Web sites just keep downloading it again. If I turn off ActiveX completely, then Internet Explorer is constantly warning me that Web pages that use Flash-based banner ads will not be displayed properly. All I want to do is a surf the Web with a little less motion on the screen. I've already turned off animated GIFs which partially solves the problem. The ability to turn Flash is also important given the recent spate of Flash security holes. Richard M. Smith http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com -Original Message- From: Mike Chambers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 5:44 PM To: 'BUGTRAQ' Subject: RE: EEYE: Macromedia Shockwave Flash Malformed Header Overflow The linux and solaris updates will be avaliable later today. You will be able to download it at: www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer/ mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Scott Lampert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 3:45 PM To: BUGTRAQ Subject: Re: EEYE: Macromedia Shockwave Flash Malformed Header Overflow On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 05:26:20PM -0700, Marc Maiffret wrote: Vendor Status: Macromedia has released a patch for this vulnerability, available at: http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=23293Metho d=FullTitle=M PSB02%2D09%20%2D%20Macromedia%20Flash%20Malformed%20Header%20Vulnerabili ty%2 0IssueCache=False Discovery: Drew Copley Exploitation: Riley Hassell As far as I can see there is no update to the UNIX versions. The files are all dated March 25. The bulletin describes version 6 of the Flash player as the fix, however that doesn't seem to be available for anything other than Windows and Mac. Am I missing something? -Scott -- Scott Lampert [EMAIL PROTECTED] They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Public Key: http://www.lampert.org/public_key.asc
Re: EEYE: Macromedia Shockwave Flash Malformed Header Overflow
Unix version is still vulnerable as Macromedia didnt updated its Flash plugin for Unix systems. __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
Re: EEYE: Macromedia Shockwave Flash Malformed Header Overflow
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 05:26:20PM -0700, Marc Maiffret wrote: Vendor Status: Macromedia has released a patch for this vulnerability, available at: http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=23293Method=FullTitle=M PSB02%2D09%20%2D%20Macromedia%20Flash%20Malformed%20Header%20Vulnerability%2 0IssueCache=False Discovery: Drew Copley Exploitation: Riley Hassell As far as I can see there is no update to the UNIX versions. The files are all dated March 25. The bulletin describes version 6 of the Flash player as the fix, however that doesn't seem to be available for anything other than Windows and Mac. Am I missing something? -Scott -- Scott Lampert [EMAIL PROTECTED] They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Public Key: http://www.lampert.org/public_key.asc msg08785/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
