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Luigi Auriemma

Application: Georgia SoftWorks SSH2 Server (GSW_SSHD)
http://www.georgiasoftworks.com/prod_ssh2/ssh2_server.htm
Versions: <= 7.01.0003
Platforms: Windows
Bugs: A] format string in the log function
B] buffer-overflow in the log function
C] buffer-overflow in the handling of the password
Exploitation: remote
Date: 02 Jan 2008
Author: Luigi Auriemma
e-mail: aluigi@autistici.org
web: aluigi.org


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


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1) Introduction
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GSW_SSHD is a well known commercial SSH server which acts as SSH tunnel
for the telnet server GS_Tnet.exe.


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2) Bugs
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A] format string in the log function
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The logging function used by the server is affected by a format string
vulnerability caused by the usage of vsprintf for building the first
message (like "LoginPassword(%s(%s)[%u])") and the usage of another
vsprintf for building the final log entry.
The bug can be exploitable through the username field.


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B] buffer-overflow in the log function
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A buffer-overflow vulnerability is located in the same logging
function.
It's enough to use an username longer than 10000 chars to exploit the
vulnerability.


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C] buffer-overflow in the handling of the password
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The server is affected also by another buffer-overflow this time
located in the instructions which handle the password supplied by the
client exploitable through a string longer than 800 chars.


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


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4) Fix
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No fix


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Luigi Auriemma
http://aluigi.org