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******************** Netragard,  L.L.C  Advisory* *******************    

                     Strategic Reconnaissance Team
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[About Netragard]
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Web Applications commonly used by businesses internationally. We apply
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not those of automated scanners and tools.  This advisory is the product
of research done by the Strategic Reconnaissance Team.




[Official URL]
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http://www.netragard.com/pdfs/research/HP-TRU64-DTMAIL-20060810.txt




[Advisory Information]
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Contact      : Adriel T. Desautels
Advisory ID    : NETRAGARD-20060810
Product Name    : dtmail
Product Version    : 5.1b
Vendor Name    : Hewlet Packard
Criticality     : Local Root Compromise
Effort                  : Easy
Operating System        : Tru64
Type      : Unchecked Buffer




[Product Description]
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The dtmail program is a desktop mail application.  It provides an easy
to use interface for viewing, filing, composing and sending
electronic mail folders and mail messages.

dtmail provides a GUI-based interface for manipulating electronic mail
messages that can have attachments. Use the interface to compose a
message, view a message or a folder containing messages, load new mail
,copy or move messages from one folder to another, delete messages,
reply to messages, add and delete attachments to a message when
composing, and view the contents of attachments in a message. dtmail
also supplies a mail-pervasive desktop environment by providing a
public Tooltalk API that other clients can use to compose and send
messages.

You can use dtmail as a Post Office Protocol (POP) to connect to mail
servers offering POP services.  If you choose this option, you can
also select APOP authentication (if supported by your mail server) to
encrypt your user ID and password during communications with your
network mail server.




[Technical Summary]
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dtmail suffers from a buffer overflow vulnerability which could result
in the execution of arbitrary code. More specifically this
vulnerability is triggered when using -a flag:

  -a file1 ...fileN

Bring up a Compose window with file1 through fileN as
attachments.




[Technical Details]
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This was tested against tru64 version 5.1b using a system (a working
display is required). The following gdb output demonstrates the
vulnerability.

gdb) r -a -a `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
Starting program: /cluster/members/member0/tmp/dtmail -a `perl -e
'print "A"x 9000'`
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
warning: Hit heuristic-fence-post without finding
warning: enclosing function for address 0x4141414141414140
This warning occurs if you are debugging a function without any
symbols (for example, in a stripped executable).  In that case, you
may wish to increase the size of the search with the `set heuristic-
fence-post' command.

Otherwise, you told GDB there was a function where there isn't one, or
(more likely) you have encountered a bug in GDB.
0x4141414141414140 in ?? ()




[Proof of Concept]
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Undisclosed.




[Vendor Status]
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HP was contacted and a patch has been created.




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[Disclaimer]
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Netragard, L.L.C. assumes no liability for the use of the information
provided in this advisory. This advisory was released in an effort to
help the I.T. community protect its self against a potentially
dangerous security risk. This advisory is not an attempt to solicit
business.

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