TITLE: WEBKIT (APPLE SAFARI < 4.1.2/5.0.2 & GOOGLE CHROME < 5.0.375.125) MEMORY CORRUPTION VULNERABILITY TESTED OS: WINDOWS XP SP3 SEVERITY: HIGH CVE-NUMBER: CVE-2010-1813 DISCOVERED DATE: 2010-06-29 FIXED DATE: GOOGLE CHROME (2010-07-26) & APPLE SAFARI (2010-09-08) FIXED VERSIONS: GOOGLE CHROME 5.0.375.125 & APPLE SAFARI 4.1.2/5.0.2 DISCOVERED BY: JOSE A. VAZQUEZ ======ABOUT APPLICATION====== "WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit's HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE..." copied from http://webkit.org/ ======DESCRIPTION====== A memory corruption vulnerability was confirmed by Chromium Security Team. Original stacktrace showed a null ptr dereference, but some pointers were also corrupted. Stacktrace (using Chrome symbols): WebCore::RenderObject::containingBlock() Line 597 WebCore::RenderBlock::paintContinuationOutlines() Line 2344 WebCore::RenderBlock::paintObject() Line 2232 WebCore::RenderBlock::paint() Line 1980 WebCore::RenderLayer::paintLayer() Line 2447 WebCore::RenderLayer::paintList() Line 2499 WebCore::RenderLayer::paintLayer() Line 2468 WebCore::RenderLayer::paint() Line 2252 WebCore::FrameView::paintContents() Line 1943 WebCore::ScrollView::paint() Line 797 WebCore::RenderWidget::paint() Line 281 WebCore::InlineBox::paint() Line 180 WebCore::InlineFlowBox::paint() Line 682 WebCore::RootInlineBox::paint() Line 167 WebCore::RenderLineBoxList::paint() Line 219 WebCore::RenderBlock::paintContents() Line 2090 WebCore::RenderBlock::paintObject() Line 2199 WebCore::RenderBlock::paint() Line 1980 WebCore::RenderBlock::paintChildren() Line 2127 WebCore::RenderBlock::paintContents() Line 2092 WebCore::RenderBlock::paintObject() Line 2199 WebCore::RenderBlock::paint() Line 1980 WebCore::RenderLayer::paintLayer() Line 2445 WebCore::RenderLayer::paintList() Line 2499 WebCore::RenderLayer::paintLayer() Line 2468 WebCore::RenderLayer::paint() Line 2252 WebCore::FrameView::paintContents() Line 1943 WebCore::ScrollView::paint() Line 797 WebKit::WebFrameImpl::paintWithContext() Line 1795 WebKit::WebFrameImpl::paint() Line 1818 WebKit::WebViewImpl::paint() Line 979 RenderWidget::PaintRect() Line 390 RenderWidget::DoDeferredUpdate() Line 501 RenderWidget::CallDoDeferredUpdate() Line 428 ======PROOF OF CONCEPT====== File 1.html: File 2.html: X
======STEPS TO REPRODUCE====== 1.- Upload 1.html and 2.html to your server. 2.- Open file 1.html with vulnerable app. -Google Chrome: 3.- Wait for a while, then, crash is got (sad-tab). -Apple Safari: 3.- Wait for a while, if crash is not got, use Ctrl+T to trigger it. ======REFERENCES====== [ref-1] -> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41373 [ref-2] -> http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/07/stable-channel-update_26.html [ref-3] -> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4334 [ref-4] -> http://spa-s3c.blogspot.com/2010/09/full-responsible-disclosurewebkit-apple.html ======DISCLOSURE TIMELINE====== Standard Time Zone: GMT/UTC + 01:00 hour (Spain/Madrid) [2010-06-29] => Posted new issue in Chromium Project (with pocs). [2010-06-29] => Chromium confirmed memory corruption and opened new webkit bug. [2010-07-26] => Chromium released new fix (Google Chrome 5.0.375.125). [2010-09-08] => Apple released new fix (Apple Safari 4.1.2/5.0.2). [2010-09-10] => Public disclosure. ======CREDITS======= Jose Antonio Vazquez Gonzalez, Telecom. Engineer & Sec. Researcher. http://spa-s3c.blogspot.com/