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                             Luigi Auriemma

Application:  Chrome
              http://www.chromethegame.com
Versions:     <= 1.2.0.0
Platforms:    Windows
Bug:          reading and writing into unallocated memory (crash)
Exploitation: remote, versus server
Date:         18 Mar 2004
Author:       Luigi Auriemma
              e-mail: aluigi@autistici.org
              web:    aluigi.org


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1) Introduction
2) Bug
3) The Code
4) Fix


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1) Introduction
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Chrome is a cool game developed by Techland (http://www.techland.pl)
and is a futuristic FPP (First Person Perspective) shooting game whose
takes action on a planet of another solar system called Valkyria.
It has been published by Strategy First (http://www.strategyfirst.com)
in June 2003.


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2) Bug
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The problem is located in the following instructions:

  buff = malloc(value);
  memcpy(buff, packet + 8, value);

where "buff" is the new allocated buffer, "value" is a 32 bit number
located at offset 4 of the packet sent by the client and "packet" is
just this packet.
Now we have 2 interesting effects that have the same result (server's
crash):

- if "value" is too big the malloc() function will fail and there are
  no instructions to check it so the game will try to write into a bad
  memory zone (0x00000000)
- if "value" is big but is allocable, memcpy() will fail because the
  value is bigger than the packet so it will try to read from the
  unallocated memory after the data


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3) The Code
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http://aluigi.org/poc/chromeboom.zip


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4) Fix
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No fix.
Developers talked about the patching of their online servers and about
an eventual patch for users within over 2 weeks ago, but nothing has
been released yet and there are no informations from them.

UPDATE:
Has been reported that version 1.2.2.0 fixes the bug.


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