Microsoft Windows 2000/Vista/XP Animated Cursor memory corruption

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in Microsoft Windows 2000/Vista/XP (Operating System). Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component Animated Cursor Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Stack-based buffer overflow in the animated cursor code in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 through Vista allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (persistent reboot) via a large length value in the second (or later) anih block of a RIFF .ANI, cur, or .ico file, which results in memory corruption when processing cursors, animated cursors, and icons, a variant of CVE-2005-0416, as originally demonstrated using Internet Explorer 6 and 7. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2007-1765; if so, then CVE-2007-0038 should be preferred.

The weakness was published 03/30/2007 with McAfee as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is available at microsoft.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2007-0038 since 01/03/2007. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/03/2024).

A public exploit has been developed by jamikazu and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $100k and more. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 801720 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 90389 (Vulnerabilities in GDI Could Allow Remote Code Execution (MS07-017)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at microsoft.com. The problem might be mitigated by replacing the product with as an alternative. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be establishing an alternative product. A possible mitigation has been published 4 days after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 3079. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 3210.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (33301), Exploit-DB (3634), Zero-Day.cz (129), Tenable (801720) and SecurityFocus (BID 23194†).

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
Author: jamikazu
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Nessus ID: 801720
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OpenVAS ID: 801720
OpenVAS Name: Vulnerabilities in GDI Could Allow Remote Code Execution (925902)
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Saint ID: exploit_info/windows_animated_cursor
Saint Name: Windows Animated Cursor Header buffer overflow

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MetaSploit ID: ms07_017_ani_loadimage_chunksize.rb
MetaSploit Name: Windows ANI LoadAniIcon() Chunk Size Stack Buffer Overflow (SMTP)
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Patch: microsoft.com

Snort ID: 3079
Snort Message: BROWSER-IE Microsoft Internet Explorer ANI file parsing buffer overflow attempt
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com
Product: microsoft.com

Advisory: microsoft.com
Organization: McAfee
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2007-0038 (🔍)
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X-Force: 33301 - Microsoft Windows animated cursor (ANI) buffer overflow, High Risk
SecurityFocus: 23194 - Microsoft Windows Cursor And Icon ANI Format Handling Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 24659 - Microsoft Windows Animated Cursor Buffer Overflow Vulnerability, Extremely Critical
OSVDB: 33629 - Microsoft IE Animated Cursor (.ani) Handling Arbitrary Command Execution
Vulnerability Center: 14735 - [MS07-017] Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow via Malformed ANI File, High
Vupen: ADV-2007-1215

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/30/2007 12:11 PM
Updated: 09/03/2024 01:30 AM
Changes: 03/30/2007 12:11 PM (107), 09/04/2017 09:21 AM (14), 07/21/2024 11:20 AM (23), 09/03/2024 01:30 AM (2)
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