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Broadcast buffer-overflow in Vypress Messenger 3.5.1

From: Luigi Auriemma (aluigiautistici.org)
Date: Fri Oct 01 2004 - 14:24:15 CDT


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                             Luigi Auriemma

Application: Vypress Messenger
              http://www.vypress.com/products/messenger/
Versions: <= 3.5.1
Platforms: Windows
Bug: buffer overflow
Risk: critical
Exploitation: remote, broadcast
Date: 01 October 2004
Author: Luigi Auriemma
              e-mail: aluigialtervista.org
              web: http://aluigi.altervista.org

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1) Introduction
2) Bug
3) The Code
4) Fix

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1) Introduction
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Vypress Messenger is an intranet Windows application for exchanging
messages.

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2) Bug
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A visualization function in the program is affected by a
buffer-overflow bug exploitable using 776 chars in the field #1 of a
message.

Due to the intranet nature of the program is possible to exploit any
host in the LAN simply sending the malicious message to a broadcast
address.

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3) The Code
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http://aluigi.altervista.org/poc/vymesbof.zip

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4) Fix
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Version 4.0 RC1:

  http://www.vypress.com/previews/

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Luigi Auriemma
http://aluigi.altervista.org