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Luigi Auriemma

Application: PeerCast
http://www.peercast.org
Versions: <= 0.1217 and SVN <= 344
Platforms: Windows, plugin for Winamp, Linux and Mac
Bug: heap overflow
Exploitation: remote
Date: 17 Dec 2007
Author: Luigi Auriemma
e-mail: aluigi@autistici.org
web: aluigi.org


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1) Introduction
2) Bug
3) The Code
4) Fix


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1) Introduction
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PeerCast is a multi platform open source software for peer2peer radio
streaming.
The broadcasters are visible at http://yp.peercast.org


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2) Bug
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The handshakeHTTP function which handles all the requests received by
the other clients is vulnerable to a heap overflow which allows an
attacker to fill the loginPassword and loginMount buffers located in
the Servent class with how much data he wants.

From servhs.cpp:

void Servent::handshakeHTTP(HTTP &http, bool isHTTP)
{
char *in = http.cmdLine;
...
}else if (http.isRequest("SOURCE"))
{
if (!isAllowed(ALLOW_BROADCAST))
...
mount = in+strlen(in);
while (*--mount)
if (*mount == '/')
{
mount[-1] = 0; // password preceeds
break;
}
strcpy(loginPassword,in+7);
..
if (mount)
strcpy(loginMount,mount);
...

ALLOW_BROADCAST ("allowBroadcast" in peercast.ini) is enabled by
default.


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3) The Code
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http://aluigi.org/poc/peercasthof.zip


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4) Fix
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Version 0.1218 or SVN 347


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Luigi Auriemma
http://aluigi.org