Talos Vulnerability Report

TALOS-2016-0209

AntennaHouse DMC HTMLFilter DHFSummary Code Execution Vulnerability

May 4, 2017
CVE Number

CVE-2016-8384

Summary

An exploitable heap corruption vulnerability exists in the DHFSummary functionality of AntennaHouse DMC HTMLFilter. A specially crafted doc file can cause a heap corruption resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious doc file to trigger this vulnerability.

Tested Versions

AntennaHouse DMC HTMLFilter shipped with MarkLogic 8.0-5.5 1415cbc784f05db0e9db424636df581a libdhf_comm.so 81db1b55e18a0cb70a78410147f50b9c libdhf_htmlif.so fb1a22fa08c986ec3614284f4e912b0a libdhf_rdoc.so b2622da4ce1aa7fa4aac10ee7d3407cf libdhf_rppt.so 1eabb31236c675f9856a7d001b339334 libdhf_rxls.so d716dd77c8e9ee88df435e74fad687e6 libdhf_whtml.so 15b0acc464fba28335239f722a62037f libdmc_comm.so 4ae366fbd4540dd4c750e6679eb63dd4 libdmc_conf.so 84009641f744d88fd1737d59b7c71ab1 libdmc_dtct.so

Product URLs

https://www.antennahouse.com/antenna1/

CVSSv3 Score

8.3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSSv3 Calculator: https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0

Details

This vulnerability is present in the AntennaHouse DMC HTMLFilter which is used among others to convert doc files to (x)html form.
This product is mainly used by MarkLogic for doc document conversions as part of their web based document search and rendering engine. A specially crafted DOC file can lead to heap corruption and ultimately to remote code execution.

Let’s investigate this vulnerability. After executing the DOC to html converter with a malformed doc file as an input we can easily observe a couple of flaws using Valgrind:

icewall@ubuntu:~/bugs/cvtofc$ valgrind ./convert config_doc
==7273== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==7273== Copyright (C) 2002-2013, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==7273== Using Valgrind-3.10.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==7273== Command: ./convert config_doc
==7273== 
input=/home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/config_doc/toconv.doc
output=/home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/config_doc/conv.html
type=1
info.options='0'
Return from GetFileInfo=0
HtmlInfo.GroupName=UTF-8
HtmlInfo.DefLangName=English
HtmlInfo.bBigEndian=0
HtmlInfo.options=0
HtmlInfo.SheetId=0
HtmlInfo.SlideId=0
HtmlInfo.lpFunc=(nil)
HtmlInfo.szImageFolder=
==7273== Invalid write of size 4
==7273==    at 0x402EE82: memcpy (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-x86-linux.so)
==7273==    by 0x42DD3D2: DMC_2OLEreadStream (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdmc_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B1C5: DHFSummary (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B5B3: DHF_SummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x638D736: Doc_PutSummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x635D308: SimReadText (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x6342C7E: DHF_ROpen (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x4039765: FilterToHtml (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x4038AFB: DHF_GetHtml_V11 (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x8049AF7: main (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/convert)
==7273==  Address 0x443da64 is 2 bytes after a block of size 2 alloc'd
==7273==    at 0x402A17C: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-x86-linux.so)
==7273==    by 0x42DACB1: DMC_malloc (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdmc_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B19B: DHFSummary (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B5B3: DHF_SummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x638D736: Doc_PutSummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x635D308: SimReadText (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x6342C7E: DHF_ROpen (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x4039765: FilterToHtml (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x4038AFB: DHF_GetHtml_V11 (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x8049AF7: main (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/convert)
==7273== 
==7273== Invalid read of size 1
==7273==    at 0x433A6C0: DHFSum_GetDWord (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B1D1: DHFSummary (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B5B3: DHF_SummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x638D736: Doc_PutSummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x635D308: SimReadText (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x6342C7E: DHF_ROpen (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x4039765: FilterToHtml (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x4038AFB: DHF_GetHtml_V11 (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x8049AF7: main (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/convert)
==7273==  Address 0x443da64 is 2 bytes after a block of size 2 alloc'd
==7273==    at 0x402A17C: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-x86-linux.so)
==7273==    by 0x42DACB1: DMC_malloc (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdmc_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B19B: DHFSummary (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B5B3: DHF_SummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x638D736: Doc_PutSummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x635D308: SimReadText (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x6342C7E: DHF_ROpen (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x4039765: FilterToHtml (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x4038AFB: DHF_GetHtml_V11 (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x8049AF7: main (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/convert)
==7273== 
==7273== Invalid read of size 1
==7273==    at 0x433A6C4: DHFSum_GetDWord (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B1D1: DHFSummary (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B5B3: DHF_SummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x638D736: Doc_PutSummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x635D308: SimReadText (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x6342C7E: DHF_ROpen (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x4039765: FilterToHtml (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x4038AFB: DHF_GetHtml_V11 (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x8049AF7: main (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/convert)
==7273==  Address 0x443da65 is 3 bytes after a block of size 2 alloc'd
==7273==    at 0x402A17C: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-x86-linux.so)
==7273==    by 0x42DACB1: DMC_malloc (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdmc_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B19B: DHFSummary (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B5B3: DHF_SummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x638D736: Doc_PutSummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x635D308: SimReadText (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x6342C7E: DHF_ROpen (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x4039765: FilterToHtml (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x4038AFB: DHF_GetHtml_V11 (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x8049AF7: main (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/convert)
==7273== 
==7273== Invalid read of size 1
==7273==    at 0x433A6CA: DHFSum_GetDWord (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B1D1: DHFSummary (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B5B3: DHF_SummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x638D736: Doc_PutSummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x635D308: SimReadText (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x6342C7E: DHF_ROpen (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x4039765: FilterToHtml (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x4038AFB: DHF_GetHtml_V11 (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x8049AF7: main (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/convert)
==7273==  Address 0x443da66 is 4 bytes after a block of size 2 alloc'd
==7273==    at 0x402A17C: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-x86-linux.so)
==7273==    by 0x42DACB1: DMC_malloc (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdmc_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B19B: DHFSummary (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B5B3: DHF_SummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x638D736: Doc_PutSummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x635D308: SimReadText (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x6342C7E: DHF_ROpen (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x4039765: FilterToHtml (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x4038AFB: DHF_GetHtml_V11 (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x8049AF7: main (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/convert)
==7273== 
==7273== Invalid read of size 1
==7273==    at 0x433A6D0: DHFSum_GetDWord (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B1D1: DHFSummary (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B5B3: DHF_SummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x638D736: Doc_PutSummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x635D308: SimReadText (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x6342C7E: DHF_ROpen (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x4039765: FilterToHtml (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x4038AFB: DHF_GetHtml_V11 (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x8049AF7: main (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/convert)
==7273==  Address 0x443da67 is 5 bytes after a block of size 2 alloc'd
==7273==    at 0x402A17C: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-x86-linux.so)
==7273==    by 0x42DACB1: DMC_malloc (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdmc_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B19B: DHFSummary (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x433B5B3: DHF_SummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x638D736: Doc_PutSummaryInfo (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x635D308: SimReadText (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x6342C7E: DHF_ROpen (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x4039765: FilterToHtml (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x4038AFB: DHF_GetHtml_V11 (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x8049AF7: main (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/convert)
==7273== 
==7273== Syscall param write(buf) points to uninitialised byte(s)
==7273==    at 0x41DD003: __write_nocancel (syscall-template.S:81)
==7273==    by 0x4170D20: _IO_file_write@@GLIBC_2.1 (fileops.c:1261)
==7273==    by 0x416FF5E: new_do_write (fileops.c:538)
==7273==    by 0x4171CCD: _IO_do_write@@GLIBC_2.1 (fileops.c:511)
==7273==    by 0x417159F: _IO_file_close_it@@GLIBC_2.1 (fileops.c:165)
==7273==    by 0x416567F: fclose@@GLIBC_2.1 (iofclose.c:59)
==7273==    by 0x42DAA49: DMC_FileClose (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdmc_comm.so)
==7273==    by 0x636221E: SimReadText (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x6342C7E: DHF_ROpen (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so)
==7273==    by 0x4039765: FilterToHtml (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x4038AFB: DHF_GetHtml_V11 (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x8049AF7: main (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/convert)
==7273==  Address 0x40403fe is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd
==7273== 
==7273== Source and destination overlap in strcpy(0x43df78d, 0x43df78d)
==7273==    at 0x402D56F: strcpy (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-x86-linux.so)
==7273==    by 0x63B686F: DHF_WOpen (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_whtml.so)
==7273==    by 0x4039779: FilterToHtml (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x4038AFB: DHF_GetHtml_V11 (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so)
==7273==    by 0x8049AF7: main (in /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/convert)
==7273== 

We see in the first couple lines of the Valgrind output that in the DHFSummary function the argument passed to malloc is equal 2: Address 0x443da64 is 2 bytes after a block of size 2 alloc'd

The argument value is quite small and it can be the result of a malformed field coming directly from the document. Let’s take a glance at the pseudo code of this function and investigate origin of malloc argument.

The pseudo code looks in the following way:

Line 1 signed int __cdecl DHFSummary(struct_a1 *a1, int a2, int a3) Line 2 { Line 3 (…) Line 4 if ( (!v7 && !v8) == v7 ) Line 5 { Line 6 DMC_2OLEreadStream(a1->streamHandle, (char *)&bufferPtr, 4u); Line 7 offset = DHFSum_GetDWord((int)a1, (int)&bufferPtr); Line 8 DMC_2OLEseekStream(a1->streamHandle, offset, 0); Line 9 DMC_2OLEreadStream(a1->streamHandle, (char *)&bufferPtr, 4u); Line 10 someSize = DHFSum_GetDWord((int)a1, (int)&bufferPtr); Line 11 v35 = DMC_malloc(someSize + 2); Line 12 if ( !v35 ) Line 13 { Line 14 DMC_2OLEcloseStream(a1->streamHandle, v29, v31, 8202); Line 15 return 12; Line 16 } Line 17 DMC_2OLEreadStream(a1->streamHandle, (char *)(v35 + 4), (unsigned __int16)(someSize - 4)); Line 18 (…)

At line 10 the DWORD value someSize is read directly from the file and is later use as a malloc argument. In our case someSize equals 0 which corresponds to the Valgrind output (since someSize + 2 = 2). From which region of the file is this value coming from and with what structure is it related?

The name of the function suggests that the value comes from the Document Summary Information:

3C00h: FE FF 00 00 03 0A 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  þÿ.............. 
3C10h: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 02 D5 CD D5  .............ÕÍÕ 
3C20h: 9C 2E 1B 10 93 97 08 00 2B 2C F9 AE B0 00 00 00  œ...“—..+,ù®°... 
3C30h: E8 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 68 00 00 00  è...........h... 
3C40h: 0F 00 00 00 70 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 7C 00 00 00  ....p.......|... 
3C50h: 06 00 00 00 84 00 DD FF 11 00 00 00 8C 00 00 00  ....„.Ýÿ....Œ... 
3C60h: 17 00 00 00 94 00 00 00 0B 00 00 00 9C 00 00 00  ....”.......œ... 
3C70h: 10 00 00 00 A4 00 00 00 13 00 00 00 AC 00 00 00  ....¤.......¬... 
3C80h: 16 00 00 00 B4 00 00 00 0D 00 00 00 BC 00 00 00  ....´.......¼... 
3C90h: 0C 00 00 00 C9 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 10 27 00 00  ....É........'.. 
3CA0h: 1E 00 00 00 1E 00 00 00 7A 00 00 00 03 00 00 00  ........z....... 
3CB0h: 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00  ................ 
3CC0h: 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 0E 00 0B 00 00 00  ................ 
3CD0h: 00 00 00 00 0B 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0B 00 00 00  ................ 
3CE0h: 00 00 00 00 0B 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1E 10 00 00  ................ 
3CF0h: 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 0C 10 00 00 02 00 00  ................ 

The value of someSize is read from offset 0x3cb0.

Line 17 is the place where the integer underflow appears and causes further issues. At line 11, someSize -4 bytes are read from the file into the buffer v35. Because someSize equals 0, the result of the substraction is: 0xfffffffc, but since it gets cast to unsigned __int16 so we end up with the value 0xfffc.

The size of the v35 buffer is 2, while in the function DMC_2OLEreadStream, 0xfffc bytes are being read into that buffer, causing a heap-based buffer overflow resulting in heap corruption.

Crash Information

Starting program: /home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/convert config_doc/
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
input=/home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/config_doc/toconv.doc
output=/home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/config_doc/conv.html
type=1
info.options='0'
Return from GetFileInfo=0
HtmlInfo.GroupName=UTF-8
HtmlInfo.DefLangName=English
HtmlInfo.bBigEndian=0
HtmlInfo.options=0
HtmlInfo.SheetId=0
HtmlInfo.SlideId=0
HtmlInfo.lpFunc=(nil)
HtmlInfo.szImageFolder=
*** Error in `/home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/convert': free(): corrupted unsorted chunks: 0x080a4ec8 ***

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
[----------------------------------registers-----------------------------------]
EAX: 0x0 
EBX: 0x8d65 
ECX: 0x8d65 
EDX: 0x6 
ESI: 0x64 ('d')
EDI: 0xf7f08000 --> 0x1aada8 
EBP: 0xfffe85f8 --> 0x80a52f0 --> 0x410 
ESP: 0xfffe8334 --> 0xfffe85f8 --> 0x80a52f0 --> 0x410 
EIP: 0xf7fdace0 (pop    ebp)
EFLAGS: 0x296 (carry PARITY ADJUST zero SIGN trap INTERRUPT direction overflow)
[-------------------------------------code-------------------------------------]
   0xf7fdacdc:	nop
   0xf7fdacdd:	nop
   0xf7fdacde:	int    0x80
=> 0xf7fdace0:	pop    ebp
   0xf7fdace1:	pop    edx
   0xf7fdace2:	pop    ecx
   0xf7fdace3:	ret    
   0xf7fdace4:	int3
[------------------------------------stack-------------------------------------]
0000| 0xfffe8334 --> 0xfffe85f8 --> 0x80a52f0 --> 0x410 
0004| 0xfffe8338 --> 0x6 
0008| 0xfffe833c --> 0x8d65 
0012| 0xfffe8340 --> 0xf7d8b687 (xchg   ebx,edi)
0016| 0xfffe8344 --> 0xf7f08000 --> 0x1aada8 
0020| 0xfffe8348 --> 0xfffe83e4 --> 0x0 
0024| 0xfffe834c --> 0xf7d8eab3 (mov    edx,DWORD PTR gs:0x8)
0028| 0xfffe8350 --> 0x6 
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
Legend: code, data, rodata, value
Stopped reason: SIGABRT
0xf7fdace0 in ?? ()
gdb-peda$ bt
#0  0xf7fdace0 in ?? ()
#1  0xf7dd04ba in malloc_printerr (action=<optimized out>, str=0xf7ec2e14 "free(): corrupted unsorted chunks", ptr=0x80a4ec8) at malloc.c:4996
#2  0xf7dd112d in _int_free (av=0xf7f08420 <main_arena>, p=<optimized out>, have_lock=0x0) at malloc.c:3840
#3  0xf7cdbcd6 in DMC_free () from ./libdmc_comm.so
#4  0xf7cde285 in DMC_2OLEcloseStream () from ./libdmc_comm.so
#5  0xf7cd3092 in DHFSummary () from ./libdhf_comm.so
#6  0xf7cd35b4 in DHF_SummaryInfo () from ./libdhf_comm.so
#7  0xf7cb7737 in Doc_PutSummaryInfo () from ./libdhf_rdoc.so
#8  0xf7c87309 in SimReadText () from ./libdhf_rdoc.so
#9  0xf7c6cc7f in DHF_ROpen () from ./libdhf_rdoc.so
#10 0xf7fd4766 in FilterToHtml () from ./libdhf_htmlif.so
#11 0xf7fd3afc in DHF_GetHtml_V11 () from ./libdhf_htmlif.so
#12 0x08049af8 in main ()
#13 0xf7d76af3 in __libc_start_main (main=0x8049730 <main>, argc=0x2, argv=0xffffd124, init=0x8049f70 <__libc_csu_init>, fini=0x8049f60 <__libc_csu_fini>, rtld_fini=0xf7feb160 <_dl_fini>, 
	stack_end=0xffffd11c) at libc-start.c:287
#14 0x08048ad1 in _start ()
gdb-peda$ exploitable -m
Warning: machine string printing is deprecated and may be removed in a future release.
EXCEPTION_FAULTING_ADDRESS:0x00000000008d65
EXCEPTION_CODE:0x6
FAULTING_INSTRUCTION:pop    ebp
MAJOR_HASH:66b5fa9a480d4fac19e9e6f0d702e905
MINOR_HASH:9ba04a1737476eab9f719eecd62f92b1
STACK_DEPTH:13
STACK_FRAME:[vdso]+0x0
STACK_FRAME:/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so!malloc_printerr+0x0
STACK_FRAME:/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so!_int_free+0x0
STACK_FRAME:/home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdmc_comm.so!DMC_free+0x0
STACK_FRAME:/home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdmc_comm.so!DMC_2OLEcloseStream+0x0
STACK_FRAME:/home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so!DHFSummary+0x0
STACK_FRAME:/home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_comm.so!DHF_SummaryInfo+0x0
STACK_FRAME:/home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so!Doc_PutSummaryInfo+0x0
STACK_FRAME:/home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so!SimReadText+0x0
STACK_FRAME:/home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_rdoc.so!DHF_ROpen+0x0
STACK_FRAME:/home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so!FilterToHtml+0x0
STACK_FRAME:/home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/libdhf_htmlif.so!DHF_GetHtml_V11+0x0
STACK_FRAME:/home/icewall/bugs/cvtofc/convert!main+0x0
INSTRUCTION_ADDRESS:0x000000f7fdace0
INVOKING_STACK_FRAME:0
DESCRIPTION:Heap error
SHORT_DESCRIPTION:HeapError (15/29)
OTHER_RULES:AbortSignal (27/29)
CLASSIFICATION:EXPLOITABLE

Timeline

2016-10-10 - Vendor Disclosure
2017-05-04 - Public Release

Credit

Discovered by Marcin 'Icewall' Noga of Cisco Talos.