Bugtraq: Re: wu-ftpd fb_realpath() off-by-one bug

[Jane Smith <incidents2000 () yahoo com>]

Hi,

I've got an AIX 5.2 server running wu-ftp 2.6.2.  I
found the "patch" for wu-ftp in the www.wu-ftpd.org
website.  I modified my source as they indicated for
the off-by-one vulnerability and the DOS vulnerability
they described.  I then re-compiled (./configure;
make; make install).  The problem is the new ftpd
binary does not work correctly.  When I use it, if I
type "ls -l" (or ls -<any flag>) I get an error: 550
Not enough space.
There's plenty of space in all file systems.  Any
advice on how to fix this problem or how to go about
troubleshooting it?

Vania
--- Przemyslaw Frasunek <venglin () freebsd lublin pl>
wrote:
> U¿ytkownik Janusz Niewiadomski napisa³:
> > This bug may be non-exploitable if size of the
> buffer is greater than
> > MAXPATHLEN characters. This may occur for example
> if wu-ftpd is compiled
> > with some versions of Linux kernel where PATH_MAX
> (and MAXPATHLEN 
> > accordingly) is defined to be exactly 4095
> characters. In such cases,
> > the buffer is padded with an extra byte because of
> variable alignment 
> > which is a result of code optimization.
> Actually, this bug is (probably) also
> non-exploitable when wu-ftpd is 
> compiled using the gcc 3.x, which aligns stack
> variables in a different way:
>
> (gdb) b fb_realpath
> Breakpoint 1 at 0x8063c72: file realpath.c, line
> 103.
> (gdb) cont
> Continuing.
> (gdb) x/bx &resolved[4096]
> 0xbfffc770:     0x00
> (gdb) awatch *0xbfffc770
> Hardware access (read/write) watchpoint 2:
> *3221210992
> (gdb) cont
> Continuing.
> Hardware access (read/write) watchpoint 2:
> *3221210992
>
> Value = 0
> 0x400d81d9 in strcat () from /lib/libc.so.6
>
> In my example (wu-ftpd 2.6.2 compiled on Debian with
> gcc 3.3.1), the 
> address of NULL-overflowed byte is 0xbfffc770 and
> the saved %ebp is located 
> at 0xbfffc788:
>
> (gdb) info frame 2
> Stack frame at 0xbfffc788:
>   eip = 0x8063ae4 in wu_realpath (realpath.c:60);
> saved eip 0x8053b35
>   called by frame at 0xbfffe7d8, caller of frame at
> 0xbfffb748
>   source language c.
>   Arglist at 0xbfffc788, args: path=0x808cef0 'A'
> <repeats 200 times>...,
>      resolved_path=0xbfffc7a0 "\001\001",
> chroot_path=0x8082e60 ""
>   Locals at 0xbfffc788, Previous frame's sp in esp
>   Saved registers:
>    ebx at 0xbfffc784, ebp at 0xbfffc788, eip at
> 0xbfffc78c
>
> I have tested the generic RedHat 8.0 (which provides
> wu-ftpd-2.6.2-5 
> compiled with gcc 3.x) and the behaviour was exactly
> the same.
>
> Wu-ftpd suppiled with Debian Woody also seems to be
> non-exploitable -- it's 
>   compiled on kernel 2.2 with PATH_MAX 4095.
>
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