Advisory: Panda Internet Security/Antivirus+Firewall 2008
cpoint.sys Kernel Driver Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Advisory ID: TKADV2008-001
Revision: 1.0
Release Date: 2008/03/08
Last Modified: 2008/03/08
Date Reported: 2008/01/08
Author: Tobias Klein (tk at trapkit.de)
Affected Software: Panda Internet Security 2008
Panda Antivirus+Firewall 2008
Remotely Exploitable: No
Locally Exploitable: Yes
Vendor URL: http://www.pandasecurity.com
Vendor Status: Vendor has released a hotfix
Patch development time: 60 days


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Vulnerability details:
======================

The kernel driver cpoint.sys shipped with Panda Internet Security and Antivirus+
Firewall 2008 contains a vulnerability in the code that handles IOCTL requests...

Exploitation of this vulnerability can result in:

1) local denial of service attacks (system crash due to a kernel panic), or

2) local execution of arbitrary code at the kernel level (complete system
compromise)

The issue can be triggered by sending a specially crafted IOCTL request.

No special user rights are necessary to exploit the vulnerability.


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Technical description:
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The IOCTL call 0xba002848 of the cpoint.sys kernel driver shipped with Panda
Internet Security/Antivirus+Firewall 2008 accepts user supplied input that
doesn't get validated enough. In consequence it is possible to cause an
out-of-bound write in kernel memory.

Disassembly of cpoint.sys (Windows Vista 32bit version):

[...]
.text:00012633 loc_12633:
.text:00012633 mov edx, 0BA002848h <-- (1)
.text:00012638 cmp ecx, edx
.text:0001263A ja loc_12946
[...]
.text:00012640 jz loc_128BE
[...]
.text:000128BE loc_128BE:
.text:000128BE cmp [ebp+IOCTL_INPUT_SIZE], 1008h <-- (2)
.text:000128C5 jb loc_12A7D
[...]
.text:000128CB mov esi, [ebp+IOCTL_INPUT_DATA] <-- (3)
.text:000128CE cmp dword ptr [esi], 3F256B9Ah <-- (4)
.text:000128D4 jnz loc_12A7D
[...]
.text:000128FF xor eax, eax
.text:00012901 cmp [esi+8], eax <-- (5)
.text:00012904 jbe short loc_1291B
[...]

(1) Vulnerable IOCTL call
(2) IOCTL input size check
(3) The user supplied data is copied into esi
(4) + (5) Minor input data checks

From this point there are two different vulnerable code paths. Both will be
described in the following:

Vulnerable code path 1:

[...]
.text:00012906 lea ecx, [esi+0Ch] <-- (6)
[...]
.text:00012909 loc_12909:
.text:00012909 mov edx, [ecx] <-- (7)
.text:0001290B mov OVERWRITTEN_DATA[eax*4], edx <-- (8)
.text:00012912 inc eax
.text:00012913 add ecx, 4
.text:00012916 cmp eax, [esi+8] <-- (9)
.text:00012919 jb short loc_12909
[...]

(6) Some user controlled data is copied into ecx
(7) The user controlled data is copied into edx
(8) The user controlled data is copied (as dwords) at the memory location
OVERWRITTEN_DATA
(9) The size of the copied data (loop counter in eax) can be controlled by the
user

This leads to an out-of-bound write in kernel memory.

Vulnerable code path 2:

[...]
.text:0001291B loc_1291B:
.text:0001291B xor eax, eax
.text:0001291D cmp [esi+10Ch], eax <-- (10)
.text:00012923 jbe loc_129B4
[...]
.text:00012929 lea ecx, [esi+110h] <-- (11)
[...]
.text:0001292F loc_1292F:
.text:0001292F mov edx, [ecx] <-- (12)
.text:00012931 mov OVERWRITTEN_DATA2[eax*4], edx <-- (13)
.text:00012938 inc eax
.text:00012939 add ecx, 4
.text:0001293C cmp eax, [esi+10Ch] <-- (14)
.text:00012942 jb short loc_1292F
[...]

(10) Minor check of the user controlled data
(11) Some user controlled data is copied into ecx
(12) The user controlled data is copied into edx
(13) The user controlled data is copied (as dwords) at the memory location
OVERWRITTEN_DATA2
(14) The size of the copied data (loop counter in eax) can be controlled by the
user

This leads to an out-of-bound write in kernel memory.

In both cases it is possible to write an arbitrary amount of user controlled
data into kernel memory. As the data that gets overwritten is in the data
section of the cpoint.sys kernel driver it is possible to control adjacent data
structures (e.g. some KEVENT structures). If these structures are overwritten
with carefully crafted data it is possible to force the windows kernel into
performing a memory corruption that leads to full control of the kernel
execution flow.


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Solution:
=========

Hotfix for Panda Internet Security 2008:

http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/support/card?id=41337&idIdioma=2&ref=ProdExp

Hotfix for Panda Antivirus+Firewall 2008:

http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/support/card?id=41231&idIdioma=2&ref=ProdExp


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History:
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2008/01/08 - Vendor notified using This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
2008/01/13 - Vendor response with PGP key
2008/01/14 - Detailed vulnerability information sent to the vendor
2008/01/14 - Vendor acknowledges receipt of the information
2008/01/16 - Vendor confirms the vulnerability
2008/02/12 - Status update request sent to vendor
2008/02/15 - Vendor response stating that a hotfix was developed
2008/03/03 - Vendor sends time schedule for releasing the hotfix
2008/03/07 - Vendor releases hotfix
2008/03/08 - Full technical details released to general public


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Credits:
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Vulnerability found and advisory written by Tobias Klein.


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References:
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[1] http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/support/card?id=41337&idIdioma=2&ref=ProdExp

[2] http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/support/card?id=41231&idIdioma=2&ref=ProdExp

[3] http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-001.txt


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Changes:
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Revision 0.1 - Initial draft release to the vendor
Revision 1.0 - Public release


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Disclaimer:
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