Re: Times up!

[Alexander Sotirov <alex () sotirov net>]

Here's the decompiled code of the function is anybody is curious:

http://www.phreedom.org/blog/2008/decompiling-ms08-067/


#include <wchar.h>

// This is the decompiled function sub_5B86A51B in netapi32.dll on XP SP3

int ms08_067(wchar_t* path)
{
    wchar_t* p;
    wchar_t* q;
    wchar_t* previous_slash = NULL;
    wchar_t* current_slash  = NULL;
    wchar_t  ch;

    // If the path starts with a server name, skip it

    if ((path[0] == L'\\' || path[0] == L'/') &&
        (path[1] == L'\\' || path[1] == L'/'))
    {
        p = path+2;

        while (*p != L'\\' || *p != L'/') {
            if (*p == L'\0')
                return 0;
            p++;
        }

        p++;

        // make path point after the server name

        path = p;

        // make sure the server name is followed by a single slash

        if (path[0] == L'\\' || path[0] == L'/')
            return 0;
    }

    if (path[0] == L'\0')   // return if the path is empty
        return 1;

    // Iterate through the path and canonicalize ..\ and .\

    p = path;

    while (1) {
        if (*p == L'\\') {
            // we have a slash

            if (current_slash == p-1)   // don't allow consequtive slashes
                return 0;

            // store the locations of the current and previous slashes

            previous_slash = current_slash;
            current_slash = p;
        }
        else if (*p == L'.' && (current_slash == p-1 || p == path)) {
            // we have \. or ^.

            if (p[1] == L'.' && (p[2] == L'\\' || p[2] == L'\0')) {
                // we have a \..\, \..$, ^..\ or ^..$ sequence

                if (previous_slash == NULL)
                    return 0;

                // example: aaa\bbb\..\ccc
                //             ^   ^  ^
                //             |   |  &p[2]
                //             |   |
                //             |   current_slash
                //             |
                //             previous_slash

                ch = p[2];

                wcscpy(previous_slash, &p[2]);

                if (ch == L'\0')
                    return 1;

                current_slash = previous_slash;
                p = previous_slash;

                // find the slash before p

                // BUG: if previous_slash points to the beginning of the
                // string, we'll go beyond the start of the buffer
                //
                // example string: \a\..\

                q = p-1;
                
                while (*q != L'\\' && q != path)
                    q--;

                if (*p == L'\\')
                    previous_slash = q;
                else
                    previous_slash = NULL;
            }
            else if (p[1] == L'\\') {
                // we have \.\ or ^.\ 

                if (current_slash != NULL) {
                    wcscpy(current_slash, &p[1]);
                    goto end_of_loop;
                }
                else { // current_slash == NULL
                    wcscpy(p, p+2);
                    goto end_of_loop;
                }
            }
            else if (p[1] != L'\0') {
                // we have \. or ^. followed by some other char

                if (current_slash != NULL) {
                    p = current_slash;
                }
                *p = L'\0';
                return 1;
            }
        }

        p++;

end_of_loop:
        if (*p == L'\0')
            return 1;
    }
}

// Run this program to simulate the MS08-067 vulnerability

int main()
{
    return ms08_067(L"\\a\\..\\");
}

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