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Foxit Reader 2.2 two potentially exploitable bugs
From: j.v.vallejo () gmail com
Date: 16 Apr 2008 12:26:25 -0000
Hi all, I would like to post here some problems that i found in Foxit Reader 2.2 software. I sent to the company support two depthly detailed descriptions about these bugs with both pdfs causing them. The answer from the company was: "Hello. Both Foxit Reader and Adobe Reader cannot open the files you send us. These files have been damaged. Thanks much." I downloaded the foxit reader 2.2 software today to test the pdf files again. The crashses continue there. The company seems to be not very interested on these reports. I hope these descriptions that i will post here was interesting for anyone. Analysis 1: ----------- http://www.vallejo.cc/proyectos/foxitreader1.htm Autor: Javier Vicente Vallejo Web: www.vallejo.cc Abstract Foxit Reader 2.2 is prone to a vulnerability when a malformed pdf is parsed. Affcted versions Tested with Foxit Reader 2.2, Windows XP Media Center Sp2. Analysis The vulnerability occurs when a malformed /ExtGState resource is parsed. In this case the ExtGState resource was supplanted with a /Font resource, but the type of the resource continued being ExtGState: 261 0 obj <</Type /Page /Parent 126 0 R /MediaBox [0 0 259 408 ]/CropBox [0 0 531 666 ]/Resources <</ProcSet [/PDF /Text] /ExtGState <</R7 7 0 R>>>> /Contents [20 0 R]>> endobj 7 0 obj <</FirstChaaa 1 /Type /Funt /FontDescriptor 23 0 R /BaseFont /xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxoman,Italic /Subtype /TrueType /Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding /LaitChar 211 /Wodths [ ]
endobj 23 0 obj <</zzz9ðE /oooooo>> endobj Under these conditions it seems Foxit allocates differents structures waiting to complete that memory with the content of the /ExtGState resource. However when it finds fields associated with a /Font resource, it tries to parse them anyway, and it completes the memory for that structures with incorrect data. This situation occurs because some functions (mainly the one located at address 0x4d1ed0) are common functions to parse any type of field for any type of resource. So, when some fields of a /Font dictionary are found under a /ExtGState resource, the fields are read and interpreted, and the allocated structures are filled with incorrect data. This facts cause different errors in the execution. For example, this code: 004A6E04 C74424 04 000000>MOV DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+4],0 004A6E0C 0F84 9A000000 JE foxit_re.004A6EAC 004A6E12 8B41 08 MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[ECX+8] 004A6E15 48 DEC EAX 004A6E16 83F8 08 CMP EAX,8 004A6E19 0F87 8D000000 JA foxit_re.004A6EAC 004A6E1F FF2485 BC6E4A00 JMP DWORD PTR DS:[EAX*4+4A6EBC] The instruction mov eax,[ecx+8]. Ecx+8 should contain a valid pointer, but the content of that memory is the value of the first name of the dictionary of the object 23 0 obj. We can control this value so we can control [ecx+8], for example. Modifying this dictionary name with different values we find crashes and invalid access at different EIP. For example with names with length under 8, it uses the last bytes of the name as a pointer at EIP = 0x4A6EE7. With larger names it completes the structure in a different way and the behaviour is different. 23 0 obj <</zzzzzzz /oooooo>> endobj 004A6EE7 8B41 08 MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[ECX+8] 004A6EEA 83E8 02 SUB EAX,2 004A6EED 74 23 JE SHORT foxit_re.004A6F12 004A6EEF 83E8 07 SUB EAX,7 004A6EF2 75 14 JNZ SHORT foxit_re.004A6F08 004A6EF4 8B41 14 MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[ECX+14] 004A6EF7 8B49 10 MOV ECX,DWORD PTR DS:[ECX+10] 004A6EFA 50 PUSH EAX 004A6EFB E8 20200000 CALL foxit_re.004A8F20 The code involved in this vulnerability is complex, lot of FPU and mathematical operations, etc... It is difficult to find correct values to exploit the vulnerability, however i think it is possible to exploit it by choosing some appropiated values for the input dictionaries and using heap spraying to facilitate the shellcode execution (heap spraying could be possible using javascript embedded into the own pdf file. The supplied pdf file uses javascript with some /Annots events so we can do heap spraying before the crash occured). Analysis 2: ----------- http://www.vallejo.cc/proyectos/foxitreader2.htm Autor: Javier Vicente Vallejo Web: www.vallejo.cc Abstract Foxit Reader 2.2 is prone to a vulnerability when a malformed pdf is parsed. Affcted versions Tested with Foxit Reader 2.2, Windows XP Media Center Sp2. Analysis The vulnerability occurs when a page with a malformed /XObject resource is rotated (it works if we add the /Rotate field to the page too). 4 0 obj << /Type /Page /Parent 3 0 R /Rotate 170 /Contents [ 25 0 R ] /Resources << /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageB /ImageC ] /XObject <</Im23 23 0 R>>/Font << /TT3 33 0 R >>>>
endobj 23 0 obj <</Length 11643/Filter/DCTDecode/Width -28986631481/Height 5/BitsPerComponent 8/ColorSpace/DeviceRGB/Type/#6eject/Name/?#4825#6#25n#00°#6e#6en#25n#72ƒÉ#25n™#r3/Subtype/Image>> stream ........................ endstream endobj By modifying the values of width and height fields, Foxit performs invalid write memory access to different memory addresses: For example, At EIP=51b896, width=-28986631481, height=5: 0051B88F 8B4C24 20 MOV ECX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+20] 0051B893 83C4 04 ADD ESP,4 0051B896 89443E 08 MOV DWORD PTR DS:[ESI+EDI+8],EAX (eax=0x0,esi=0x10c7fd8,edi=0x26f0020) 0051B89A 8B4424 10 MOV EAX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+10] 0051B89E 43 INC EBX 0051B89F 83C1 04 ADD ECX,4 At EIP=0x51b799, witdth=-87146603762, height=5: 0051B799 8937 MOV DWORD PTR DS:[EDI],ESI 0051B79B 7E 08 JLE SHORT FOXITR~1.0051B7A5 0051B79D 8977 04 MOV DWORD PTR DS:[EDI+4],ESI 0051B7A0 E9 1C010000 JMP FOXITR~1.0051B8C1 0051B7A5 DB4424 14 FILD DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+14] ... witdth=-87146603762 EIP=51b799 write->4994e93c eax=0 ecx=c1a4027f edx=f5a60633 ebx=12efd0 esp=12ef18 ebp=12ef74 esi=0 edi=4994e93c witdth=-69826555658 EIP=51b799 write->a82df00 eax=0 ecx=c181027f edx=fdc5c868 ebx=12efd0 esp=12ef18 ebp=12ef74 esi=0 edi=a82df00 witdth=-56992150114 EIP=51b799 write->16a509d8 eax=0 ecx=c194027f edx=fac27dcc ebx=13efd0 esp=13ef18 ebp=13ef74 esi=0 edi=16a509d8 witdth=-65571130766 EIP=51b799 write->1419ad20 eax=0 ecx=c192027f edx=fb62d4f6 ebx=13efd0 esp=13ef18 ebp=13ef74 esi=0 edi=1419ad20 witdth=-28986631481 EIP=51b896 write->37b8000 eax=0 ecx=10c7fd8 edx=0 ebx=431ff6 esp=13ef18 ebp=13ef74 esi=10c7fd8 edi=26f0020 witdth=-87146603762 EIP=51b799 write->497cd994 eax=0 ecx=c1a4027f edx=f5ac0a15 ebx=13efd0 esp=13ef18 ebp=13ef74 esi=0 edi=497cd994 ... With paimei framework and a py script for randomizing the witdth, i have got multiple invalid read and write operations to completely different memory addresses. I have not exploited the vulnerability yet, but it seems possible to exploit it.
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