CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
95.3%
**Title:**EPS Viewer Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
**Advisory ID:**CORE-2013-0808
**Advisory URL:**http://www.coresecurity.com/core-labs/advisories/eps-viewer-buffer-overflow-vulnerability
**Date published:**2013-08-28
**Date of last update:**2013-08-28
**Vendors contacted:**EPS Viewer Team
**Release mode:**User release
**Class:**Buffer overflow [CWE-119]
**Impact:**Code execution
**Remotely Exploitable:**Yes
**Locally Exploitable:**No
CVE Name:CVE-2013-4979
EPS Viewer [1], [2] is prone to a security vulnerability when processing EPS files. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target machine by enticing EPS Viewer users to open a specially crafted EPS file (client-side vulnerability).
There was no official answer from EPS team after several attempts to report this vulnerability (see [Sec. 8]). As mitigation action, given that this is a client-side vulnerability, avoid to open untrusted EPS files. Contact vendor for further information.
This vulnerability was discovered and researched by Daniel Kazimirow from Core Exploit Writers Team. The publication of this advisory was coordinated by Fernando Miranda from Core Advisories Team.
Below is shown the result of opening the maliciously crafted EPS file, which means the normal execution flow can be altered in order to execute arbitrary code.
10089B0E . 8BFF MOV EDI,EDI 10089B10 > 8B46 08 MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[ESI+8] ; <--- crash
(we control ESI) 10089B13 . 8B48 0C MOV ECX,DWORD PTR DS:[EAX+C] 10089B16 . 830E FE OR DWORD PTR DS:
[ESI],FFFFFFFE 10089B19 . 85C9 TEST ECX,ECX 10089B1B . 8B7E 04 MOV EDI,DWORD PTR DS:[ESI+4] 10089B1E
. 74 0C JE SHORT gsdll32.10089B2C 10089B20 . 50 PUSH EAX 10089B21 . 57 PUSH EDI 10089B22 . 8D56 10 LEA
EDX,DWORD PTR DS:[ESI+10] 10089B25 . 52 PUSH EDX 10089B26 . 53 PUSH EBX 10089B27 . FFD1 CALL ECX ; jump to our code
The vulnerability exists in gldll32.dll module:
Executable modules, item 1 Base=10000000 Size=00A93000 (11087872.) Entry=102162B0 gsdll32.
<ModuleEntryPoint> Name=gsdll32 Path=C:\Program Files\EPSViewer\gsdll32.dll EAX 035126E0
ASCII "TTEEEETTTTTTTTTTUVWXYZXYTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU ECX 00000000 EDX 00000028
EBX 0358A058 ESP 0012DA98 EBP 54545454 ESI 54544545 EDI 00000038 EIP 10089B10 gsdll32.10089B10
C 1 ES 0023 32bit 0(FFFFFFFF) P 0 CS 001B 32bit 0(FFFFFFFF) A 0 SS 0023 32bit 0(FFFFFFFF) Z 0
DS 0023 32bit 0(FFFFFFFF) S 1 FS 003B 32bit 7FFDE000(FFF) T 0 GS 0000 NULL D 0 O 0 LastErr
ERROR_SUCCESS (00000000) EFL 00000283 (NO,B,NE,BE,S,PO,L,LE) ST0 empty 0.0 ST1 empty 2.5453186
035156250000 ST2 empty 2.1025514602661132810 ST3 empty 320326.00000000000000 ST4 empty -312.818
35937500000000 ST5 empty 0.0 ST6 empty 0.2500000000000000000 ST7 empty 250.96191406250000000
3 2 1 0 E S P U O Z D I FST 0120 Cond 0 0 0 1 Err 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 (LT) FCW 027F Prec NEAR,53
Mask 1 1 1 1 1 1
[1] <http://epsviewer.org/>.
[2] <http://epsviewer.org/download.aspx>.
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