CVE-2012-0269 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in JustSystems Ichitaro 2011 Sou, Ichitaro 2006 through 2011, Ichitaro Government 2006 through 2010, Ichitaro Portable with oreplug, Ichitaro Viewer, JUST School, JUST School 2009 and 2010, JUST Jump 4, JUST Frontier, oreplug, Shuriken Pro4, Shuriken 2007 through 2010, Shuriken Pro4 Corporate Edition, Shuriken CE/2007 through CE/2009 Corporate Edition, Shuriken 2010 Corporate Edition, Rekishimail Sengokubusho no missho, and Bakumatsushishi no missho allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted image file.

Buffer overflow in JustSystems Ichitaro 2011 Sou, Ichitaro 2006 through 2011, Ichitaro Government 2006 through 2010, Ichitaro Portable with oreplug, Ichitaro Viewer, JUST School, JUST School 2009 and 2010, JUST Jump 4, JUST Frontier, oreplug, Shuriken Pro4, Shuriken 2007 through 2010, Shuriken Pro4 Corporate Edition, Shuriken CE/2007 through CE/2009 Corporate Edition, Shuriken 2010 Corporate Edition, Rekishimail Sengokubusho no missho, and Bakumatsushishi no missho allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted image file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Demo Examples

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

This example takes an IP address from a user, verifies that it is well formed and then looks up the hostname and copies it into a buffer.


               
}
strcpy(hostname, hp->h_name);/*routine that ensures user_supplied_addr is in the right format for conversion */

This function allocates a buffer of 64 bytes to store the hostname, however there is no guarantee that the hostname will not be larger than 64 bytes. If an attacker specifies an address which resolves to a very large hostname, then we may overwrite sensitive data or even relinquish control flow to the attacker.

Note that this example also contains an unchecked return value (CWE-252) that can lead to a NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476).

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

This example applies an encoding procedure to an input string and stores it into a buffer.


               
}
return dst_buf;
die("user string too long, die evil hacker!");
else dst_buf[dst_index++] = user_supplied_string[i];
dst_buf[dst_index++] = ';';
/* encode to < */

The programmer attempts to encode the ampersand character in the user-controlled string, however the length of the string is validated before the encoding procedure is applied. Furthermore, the programmer assumes encoding expansion will only expand a given character by a factor of 4, while the encoding of the ampersand expands by 5. As a result, when the encoding procedure expands the string it is possible to overflow the destination buffer if the attacker provides a string of many ampersands.

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

The following example asks a user for an offset into an array to select an item.


               
}
printf("You selected %s\n", items[index-1]);

The programmer allows the user to specify which element in the list to select, however an attacker can provide an out-of-bounds offset, resulting in a buffer over-read (CWE-126).

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

In the following code, the method retrieves a value from an array at a specific array index location that is given as an input parameter to the method


               
}
return value;// check that the array index is less than the maximum// length of the array
value = array[index];// get the value at the specified index of the array
// if array index is invalid then output error message// and return value indicating error
value = -1;

However, this method only verifies that the given array index is less than the maximum length of the array but does not check for the minimum value (CWE-839). This will allow a negative value to be accepted as the input array index, which will result in a out of bounds read (CWE-125) and may allow access to sensitive memory. The input array index should be checked to verify that is within the maximum and minimum range required for the array (CWE-129). In this example the if statement should be modified to include a minimum range check, as shown below.


               
...// check that the array index is within the correct// range of values for the array

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

Windows provides the _mbs family of functions to perform various operations on multibyte strings. When these functions are passed a malformed multibyte string, such as a string containing a valid leading byte followed by a single null byte, they can read or write past the end of the string buffer causing a buffer overflow. The following functions all pose a risk of buffer overflow: _mbsinc _mbsdec _mbsncat _mbsncpy _mbsnextc _mbsnset _mbsrev _mbsset _mbsstr _mbstok _mbccpy _mbslen

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-04-27 18:55:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2012-04-30 04:00:00

Affected Software

JustSystems Ichitaro 2006

2006

JustSystems Ichitaro Government Edition 2006

2006

ジャストシステム 一太郎 2007

2007

JustSystems Ichitaro Government Edition 2007

2007

ジャストシステム 一太郎 2008

2008

ジャストシステム 一太郎ガバメント 2008

2008

ジャストシステム 一太郎 2009

2009

ジャストシステム 一太郎ガバメント 2009

2009

ジャストシステム 一太郎 2010

2010

JustSystems Ichitaro Government Edition 2010

2010

ジャストシステム 一太郎 2011

2011

JustSystems Ichitaro 2011 Sou Edition

2011

ジャストシステム 一太郎ポータブル with oreplug

ジャストシステム 一太郎ビューア

ジャストシステム ジャストフロンティア

JustSystems Just Jump 4

4

JustSystems Just School

JustSystems Just School 2009

2009

JustSystems Just School 2010

2010

ジャストシステム oreplug

JustSystems Rekishimail Bakumatsushishi no missho

JustSystems Rekishimail Sengokubusho no missho

ジャストシステム Shuriken 2007

2007

JustSystems Shuriken 2007 Corporate Edition

2007

JustSystems Shuriken 2008

2008

JustSystems Shuriken 2008 Corporate Edition

2008

ジャストシステム Shuriken 2009

2009

JustSystems Shuriken 2009 Corporate Edition

2009

JustSystems Shuriken 2010

2010

JustSystems Shuriken 2010 Corporate Edition

2010

ジャストシステム Shuriken Pro4

4

JustSystems Shuriken Pro4 Corporate Edition

4

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