Re: Decompression Bombs [...missed something]

[Bipin Gautam.]

In-Reply-To: <401FD489.8070602@aerasec.de>


isn't the concept same as the one I produced 3 months ago in...
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8572/info/

indeed the replica... of my old concept!

[... fine, A new class of bug! & in the wild AGAIN ]


>As a followup to http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9393/, where we
>pointed out vulnerabilities of some antivirus-gateways while
>decompressing bzip2-bombs, we were interested in the behaviour of
>various applications that process compressed data.
>
>>We've created several bombs (bzip2, gzip, zip, mime-embedded bombs, png
>and gif graphics, openoffice zip bombs). With these we tested some more
>applications like additional antivirus engines, various web browsers,
>openoffice.org, and the Gimp.
>
>As a result, much more applications as we thought crashed. The
>manufacturers of software should care more about the processing of
>untrusted input.
>
>For details see our full advisory, written by Dr. Peter Bieringer:
>http://www.aerasec.de/security/advisories/decompression-bomb-vulnerability.html

[Andreas Marx]

Hi!

>isn't the concept same as the one I produced 3 months ago in...
>http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8572/info/
>indeed the replica... of my old concept!

No, that's not the case. The history with decompression bombs is much, much
older. For example, Rob Rosenberger (www.vmyths.com) has created such
testsets already in 1998 and 1999 (eistpfh.zip). He presented his results
at conferences (e.g. in 2000) a few times already. He has created several
test cases and many av programs still have problems with his testset.

His testset includes files like this:
"40,000 small DOTs masquerading as DOCs, infected with CAP virus,
compressed to 132MB by WinZip.zip"
or "A thousand ZIPs, each with a 1GB EXE which creates a 1GB TXT,
compressed to 15MB.zip"
or "A thousand ZIPs, each with a thousand ZIPs, each with a 1GB TXT,
compressed to 21MB.zip"
or "Multiple (2) 1GB EXE files, each which create a 1GB TXT, compressed to
2MB.zip"
or "A 64MB RTF compressed to 2k (two extra final levels of compression).zip"
and so on.

We (www.av-test.org) have included decompression bombs in our testset as
well -- for example, our Exchange 2000 (SP1) test of anti-virus software,
dated 2001-09, included such files. For this, we have tested heavily nested
zip files (mail bombs, such like the "famous" 42.zip), we have created ARJ
and ZIP archives with devices names like AUX or LPT1, plus we have created
archives with paths like "../name.exe". More than 1/2 of all tested av
products were vulnerable to these attacks at this time -- and it was only a
small-scale test of such aspects.

cheers,
Andreas Marx

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BSc. Andreas Marx <amarx@gega-it.de>, http://www.av-test.org
AV-Test GmbH, Klewitzstr. 7, 39112 Magdeburg, Germany
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