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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:33:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: hanno@...eck.de
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Courier mail server: Write heap overflow in mailbot tool and out of bounds heap read in imap folder parser
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> The allocation only reserves one byte
> for the zero termination, however it must be the size of the pointer (8
> bytes on 64 bit systems). Therefore it causes a write heap overflow of
> seven zero bytes.
Is this relevant:
http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-poisoned-nul-byte-2014-edition.html
"An odd malloc() size will always result in an off-by-one off the
end being harmless, due to malloc() minimum alignment being
sizeof(void*)."
?
If there's a malloc implementation that relies on the values of these
seven bytes, then the issue can have a CVE ID.
Also, here's a general (but, in this case, probably unimportant)
comment about whether command-line arguments (for a non-setuid
program) are relevant to CVE inclusion:
> The code parses command line data, therefore it is
> unlikely that any attacker controlled input is affected.
maildrop/testsuite.in gives this example:
LANG=en_US.utf-8 ./mailbot -T feedback -R abuse -n -N -m testmailbot.msg \
--feedback-source-ip 127.0.0.1 \
--feedback-incidents 2 \
However, this type of command line isn't necessarily under the control
of a local user. The purpose of mailbot is to send automatic responses
to e-mail. It seems plausible that the command line would be
dynamically constructed based on information available from an MTA,
e.g., maybe mailbot is called from a .qmail file with something like:
mailbot -T feedback -R abuse -n -N -m testmailbot.msg \
--feedback-original-mail-from $QUOTEDSENDER
where $QUOTEDSENDER is derived from the SENDER environment variable
supplied by qmail-local, and the value of SENDER can be set
arbitrarily by a remote SMTP client.
In the current case, it appears that this would not be especially
helpful to exploitation. It looks like the replyfeedback function
would copy the string "original-mail-from" to the heap but would not
copy the sender e-mail address to the heap. However, part of the SMTP
DATA is copied to the heap. Thus, an attacker interested in
controlling heap-memory contents would probably rely on DATA, not an
envelope address that could possibly affect a command line.
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CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority
M/S M300
202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA
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