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Luigi Auriemma
Application: Novell GroupWise Messenger
http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/
Versions: <= 2.1.0
Platforms: Windows, Linux, NetWare
Bug: write4
Exploitation: remote, versus server
Date: 16 Feb 2012 (found 10 May 2011)
Author: Luigi Auriemma
e-mail: aluigi@autistici.org
web: aluigi.org
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1) Introduction
2) Bug
3) The Code
4) Fix
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1) Introduction
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Check vendor's homepage and version because this is an old advisory.
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2) Bug
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nmma.exe is a service running on port 8300.
The protocol is composed by fields that have particular types, for
example 10 for strings or 8 for integers and so on like any RPC
protocol.
Through the "createsearch" command sent from a valid account and a type
9 value is possible to write a 0x00000000 in an arbitrary memory
location:
00496E2A |> 8B5D 0C /MOV EBX,DWORD PTR SS:[EBP+C]
00496E2D |> 8B4D F8 MOV ECX,DWORD PTR SS:[EBP-8]
00496E30 |. 8A47 06 |MOV AL,BYTE PTR DS:[EDI+6]
00496E33 |. 81E1 FFFF0000 |AND ECX,0FFFF
00496E39 |. 3C 02 |CMP AL,2
00496E3B |. 8B5C8B 04 |MOV EBX,DWORD PTR DS:[EBX+ECX*4+4]
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00496F3A |. C703 00000000 |MOV DWORD PTR DS:[EBX],0 ; EBX is controlled
00496F40 |. 83C3 04 |ADD EBX,4
00496F43 |. 53 |PUSH EBX
00496F44 |. 6A 20 |PUSH 20
00496F46 |. E8 5541F9FF |CALL nmma.0042B0A0
Seems that this vulnerability can be reached only with a valid account.
In my PoC I have used a pre-build admin::adminpass account so remember
to change the NM_A_PARM1 field if you want to use another one.
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3) The Code
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http://aluigi.org/poc/nmma_x.zip
https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/18488.zip (nmma_x.zip)
nmma_x 3 SERVER
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4) Fix
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No fix.
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