####################################################################### Luigi Auriemma Application: Cheese Tracker http://reduz.com.ar/cheesetracker/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/cheesetronic Versions: <= 0.9.9 and current CVS Platforms: *nix and others Bug: buffer-overflow in Loader_XM::load_instrument_internal Exploitation: local Date: 23 Jul 2006 Author: Luigi Auriemma e-mail: aluigi@autistici.org web: aluigi.org ####################################################################### 1) Introduction 2) Bug 3) The Code 4) Fix ####################################################################### =============== 1) Introduction =============== Cheese Tracker is a well known music tracker for the CT, IT, XM and S3M file formats. ####################################################################### ====== 2) Bug ====== The XM loader used by Cheese Tracker is affected by a buffer-overflow vulnerability which happens when it tries to store the exceeding data available in the input file in the junkbuster buffer of only 500 bytes. From cheesetracker/loaders/loader_xm.cpp: Loader::Error Loader_XM::load_instrument_internal(Instrument *p_instr,bool p_xi,int p_cpos, int p_hsize, int p_sampnum) { ... if (!p_xi) { if ((reader.get_file_pos()-p_cpos)