From: Ivan Stroks (ivanstroksyahoo.co.nz)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2006 - 08:39:10 CDT

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Hi list,

 I am trying to exploit a Heap buffer overflow
vulnerability and facing some problems, hope you could
help.
 I run the vulnerable program in a VMWare, attached
with Olly.

 These are my problems:

 1. I control both EAX and ESI, when the program goes
to

    mov [esi], eax
    mov [eax + 4], esi

    First of all, I tried gainig control of execution
through PEB but, according to Halvar's presentation,
there are some restrictions to what you can write in
the header of the overflowed buffer.
    Quoting:
    
    " Properties our block must have:

        Bit 0 of Flags must be set
        Bit 3 of Flags must be set
        Field_4 must be smaller than 0x40
        The first field (own size) must be larger than
0x80

        The block ‘XXXX99XX’ meets all requirements"

    So, supposing PEB pointer to overwrite is
0x7FFDF020 I would need to specify for example:
XXXX20f0fd7f, but this is not matching required
properties and so RtlFreeHeap exits.
    I am sure I must be missing something here, but
can't find it.

 2. An aditional problem I am facing, due to the fact
that this is my first heap overflowing session, is
that when I trigger the vulnerability as soon as the
programs comes back from "revert snapshot" then I get
to rtlHeapFree ok, but if some other request are
performed to the program before, then I cannot
reproduce that behaviour again and different
behaviours and situation arise.
   It is obvious that my exploit won't be the first
request the program receives so, how can I manage
this?

   Hope you could help!
   Regards

IvaN!

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