----- Original Message ----- From: NGSSoftware Insight Security Research Advisory (NISR) To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 12:07 PM Subject: Multiple Vulnerabilties in Sambar Server NGSSoftware Insight Security Research Advisory Name: Sambar Server 5.0 (server.exe) Systems Affected: WinNT, Win2K, XP Severity: High Risk Category: Buffer Overrun / DOS x 3 Vendor URL: http://www.Sambar.com.com/ Author: Mark Litchfield (mark@ngssoftware.com) Date: 1st April 2002 Advisory number: #NISR01042002 Description *********** Sambar Server is a web server that runs on Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, NT, ME, 98 & 95 and is run as a Service on NT, 2000, & XP Details ******* BufferOverrun - By sending an overly long username and password, an access violation occurs in MSVCRT.dll (Server.exe) overwriting the saved return address with (in this case) 41414141. As server.exe is started as a system service, any execution of arbitary code would be run with system privilages. DOS 1) By suppling an overly long string to a specific HTTP header field an access violation occurs in SAMBAR.DLL and kills server.exe DOS 2) GET /cgi-win/testcgi.exe?(long char string) DOS 3) GET /cgi-win/Pbcgi.exe?(long char string) Fix Information *************** NGSSoftware alerted SAMBAR to these problems on 27th March 2002. The patches are available from http://www.sambarserver.com/download/sambar51p.exe. NGSSoftware would like to take this opportunity to thank Tod Sambar who spent his Easter weekend creating these patches, demonstrating his commitment to the security of his customers. A check for these issues has been added to Typhon II, of which more information is available from the NGSSoftware website, http://www.ngssoftware.com. Further Information ******************* For further information about the scope and effects of buffer overflows, please see http://www.ngssoftware.com/papers/non-stack-bo-windows.pdf http://www.ngssoftware.com/papers/ntbufferoverflow.html http://www.ngssoftware.com/papers/bufferoverflowpaper.rtf http://www.ngssoftware.com/papers/unicodebo.pdf
