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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 11:48:41 -0700
From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...gle.com>
To: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, 
	Assign a CVE Identifier <cve-assign@...re.org>, security <security@...ntu.com>, 
	Stéphane Graber <stgraber@...ntu.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworks

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com> wrote:
> On 2015-04-14 14:10:12, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...gle.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...gle.com> wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Marc Deslauriers
>> >> <marc.deslauriers@...onical.com> wrote:
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>>
>> >>> On 2015-04-14 11:55 AM, cve-assign@...re.org wrote:
>> >>>> This is mostly a question for the persons who assigned CVE-2015-1318
>> >>>> and CVE-2015-1862. Should these CVE assignments be interpreted to
>> >>>> mean:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>   CVE-2015-1318 - in Apport, an unprivileged user can use a
>> >>>>                   namespace-based attack because there is an execve by
>> >>>>                   root after a chroot into a user-specified directory
>> >>>
>> >>> Yes, I assigned CVE-2015-1318 to that specific issue in Apport.
>> >>>
>> >>> Marc.
>> >>
>> >> It looks like this is the patch for Apport:
>> >>
>> >> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/2943#data/apport
>> >>
>> >> It's far more complicated than I expected, and not obviously correct.
>> >> It could probably use some review, I'll think about it today.
>> >>
>> >> Tavis.
>> >
>> > Wait, my first thought is that it's not obvious to me that
>> > /proc/net/unix is guaranteed to be newline delimited, newline is a
>> > perfectly valid name in a filename, no?
>> >
>> >>>> import socket
>> >>>> socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM).bind('test\ntest')
>> >>>> sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
>> >>>> sock.bind('/tmp/foo\nbar')
>> >>>> sock.listen(1)
>> >
>> > $ grep -A1 foo /proc/net/unix
>> > 0000000000000000: 00000002 00000000 00010000 0001 01 4772228 /tmp/foo
>> > bar
>>
>> And with complete control over this line, it seems like it's game over.
>>
>>                 container = lxc.Container(path[-2], real_path)
>>
>> I'm calling this re-broken.
>
> I've pointed Stéphane Graber to your analysis (and put him on cc). He's
> working on a fix.
>
> Even though it isn't clear if all of the checks added in revision 2943
> can be bypassed, it is worth coming up with another approach.
>


FWIW, I verified this is exploitable.

Just create a new directory like this:

'/tmp/\n0 1 2 3 4 5 6 /tmp/exploit/exploit/'

Then create a UNIX domain socket like this:

'/tmp/\n0 1 2 3 4 5 6 /tmp/exploit/exploit/command'

Now create a config file in there like this:

lxc.logfile = /etc/whatever

That gets you a root owned arbitrary file, now you can write arbitrary
contents to it by causing parse errors. I think if you create a filed
called `partial` it will also run hook commands when it tries to clean
up, but clearly this is enough.

Tavis.

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