Adobe Flash - '.SWF' Out-of-Bounds Memory Read (1)

EDB-ID:

37856




Platform:

Windows

Date:

2015-08-19


Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=361&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id

The following access violation was observed in the Adobe Flash Player plugin:

(150c.ca0): Access violation - code c0000005 (first chance)
First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling.
This exception may be expected and handled.
*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found.  Defaulted to export symbols for FlashPlayer.exe - 
eax=078a53b7 ebx=00f28938 ecx=002dea24 edx=000085ed esi=000085ee edi=09d9eee0
eip=0139a657 esp=002de9b4 ebp=002deda4 iopl=0         nv up ei ng nz ac pe cy
cs=0023  ss=002b  ds=002b  es=002b  fs=0053  gs=002b             efl=00210297
FlashPlayer!WinMainSandboxed+0x572f0:
0139a657 8a0402          mov     al,byte ptr [edx+eax]      ds:002b:078ad9a4=??

0:000> !address eax
[...]
Usage:                  <unknown>
Base Address:           07560000
End Address:            078ad000
Region Size:            0034d000
State:                  00001000	MEM_COMMIT
Protect:                00000004	PAGE_READWRITE
Type:                   00020000	MEM_PRIVATE
Allocation Base:        07560000
Allocation Protect:     00000001	PAGE_NOACCESS

0:000> db eax
078a53b7  c5 ea 85 00 00 b6 19 00-38 01 c5 3d 84 9e c2 3d  ........8..=...=
078a53c7  2f 48 d5 a0 2b 00 73 65-63 6f 6e 64 00 00 00 03  /H..+.second....
078a53d7  00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01-00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00  ................
078a53e7  b7 01 00 00 88 39 00 0a-00 74 68 69 73 00 5f 78  .....9...this._x
078a53f7  00 78 6d 00 5f 79 00 79-6d 00 5f 72 6f 6f 74 00  .xm._y.ym._root.
078a5407  66 69 72 73 74 73 00 63-6c 61 75 73 00 68 70 00  firsts.claus.hp.
078a5417  72 65 6d 6f 76 65 4d 6f-76 69 65 43 6c 69 70 00  removeMovieClip.
078a5427  96 02 00 08 00 1c 96 04-00 08 01 08 00 1c 96 02  ................

Notes:

- Reliably reproduces with latest Adobe Flash Player Projector for Windows and Google Chrome for Windows.

- The out-of-bounds read appears to be caused by an overly large index value (stored in the "EDX" register at the time of the crash) relative to a dynamically allocated buffer pointed to by "EAX".

- The memory under "EAX" contains a section of the input file starting at offset 0x3453b7.

- The index (EDX) value originates from offset 0x3453b8 in the file (at 1 byte offset relative to the EAX memory region).

- Attached samples: signal_sigsegv_7ffff6d2184d_5692_9217909125eb9174614e1368d5f07173 (crashing file), 9217909125eb9174614e1368d5f07173 (original file). The total difference between the two files is 13 bytes.

Proof of Concept:
https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/37856.zip