X-RDate: Sun, 10 May 1998 16:40:43 +0600 (YEKST)
X-UIDL: 35317d340000018c
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 20:10:25 +0200
From: Michal Zalewski <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]Subject: Lynx's 2.8 buffer overflow
Hello again,
I (?) found remote buffer overflow in lynx built-in mailer, which can be
exploited when victim tries to follow hyperlink. Lynx makes blind
assumption on e-mail address length, and sprintfs it into 512-bytes long
buffer. To ensure, view this html:
<a href="mailto:AAAAAAAAA[...about 3 kB...]AAAA">MAIL ME!</a>
(you should use over 2 kB of 'A's, because there are also other small
buffers on lynx's stack at the time). Why it's dangerous? Because even if
you hit Ctrl+C or Ctrl+G to exit mailer, lynx will execute given code
trying to back from sendform(...) function:
Comment request cancelled!!!
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x41414141 in ?? ()
[...]
Lynx now exiting with signal: 11
IOT trap/Abort
In above case, lynx caused SEGV trying to execute 0x41414141 ('A' has
code 0x41). But of course it's exploitable in traditional way.
Fix: replace sprintf with snprintf.
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