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Summary
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Name: SAP Message Server Heap Overflow
Release Date:  5 July 2007
Reference: NGS00485
Discover: Mark Litchfield <mark@ngssoftware.com>
Vendor: SAP
Vendor Reference: SECRES-292
Systems Affected: All Versions
Risk: Critical
Status: Fixed

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TimeLine
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Discovered:  4 January 2007
Released: 19 January 2007
Approved: 29 January 2007
Reported: 11 January 2007
Fixed:  2 May 2007
Published: 

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Description
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The Message Server is a service used by the different applications servers
to exchange data and internal messages.  It is also used for licence
checking and workload balancing together with the SAP logon utility.

The Message Server can found to be listening on the following default TCP
Ports:

Message Server - 3600
Message Server HTTP - 8100
Message Server HTTPS - No Default

Note:  All the Message Server available ports share the same PID

Depending on the number of instances that have been installed, the Message
Server can be found to listen on other PORTS.  The PORT allocation follows
the rule of incorporating the instance number to generate the TCP port
allocation (<NN>).  Examples are

Message Server - 36<NN>
Message Server HTTP - 81<NN>
Message Server HTTPS (if installed) - 444<NN>

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Technical Details
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In this particular attack, we are targeting the Message HTTP Server in an
unauthenticated state.  As can be seen from the example below, we are
sending a GET request to the Message Server listening on (in this case)
TCP Port 8100, passing a Parameter of Group to the URL
/msgserver/html/group with a value of 498 bytes.  Sending such a request
will cause a write access violation to your specified string value.  For
example using a lower case x would be an access violation writing to
location 0x78787878.

GET /msgserver/html/group?group=**498 bytes** HTTP/1.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-us
Pragma: no-cache
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET
CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Host: sapserver:8100
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive

Whilst this bug allows the remote unauthenticated execution of arbitrary
code (running as SYSTEM on Windows), as can be determined by the
functionality of this service, within a business environment, the
termination of this process can have dire effects to the operation of SAP
and its components.

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Fix Information
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