[Full-Disclosure] Re: War-ftpd bug small addition

["Berend-Jan Wever" <skylined@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is (obviously) a format string vulnerability. (Un)fortunately war-ftpd.exe 
has it's own implementation of printf-functions that doesn't support "%n" -> No 
arbitrary overwrites.
The formatstring and destination string are on the heap and the destination is 
dynamically allocated --> no buffer overflows.
All in all: no code execution.

Vulnerabilities:
Commands such as "USER %9999999999d%9999999999d%999999999999d" will consume a 
lot of CPU and memory, thus causing a DoS on the system and not just War-ftpd. 
(Maybe Secunia want to update their rating again.)
Commands such as "USER %s%s%s%s%s....%s%s" are bound to run into a dword that 
doesn't point to allocated memory, thus causing a DoS on War-ftpd itself.

To exploit this format string vuln, the target War-ftpd.exe needs to run as a 
service since it resides in one of the logging functions that it only uses when 
running as a service.

Cheers,

SkyLined

Berend-Jan Wever <skylined@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
TTP: http://www.edup.tudelft.nl/~bjwever
MSN: skylined@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IRC: SkyLined in #SkyLined on EFNET
PGP: key ID 0x48479882

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "class 101" <class101@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 18:58
Subject: [Full-Disclosure] War-ftpd bug small addition


To fix the buggus advisory spreaded everywhere saying that you need to be 
authenticated, It's false Mc.Iglo ;)

USER %s*115AAAAA
PASS blahblah

http://secunia.com/advisories/14054/

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class101
Jr. Researcher
Hat-Squad.com
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