Re: Symlink vulnerabilities

[vladz <vladz () devzero fr>]

Hi, 

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:06:25PM +0200, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
> xD 0x41 <secn3t () gmail com> wrote:
> >     Your 'race condition possibly leading to root'is a myth...
> > Yes thats maybe because race condition or not, it is ASLR wich will
> > prevent from ANY rootshell,and Yes, it has bveen tried... You can do
> > better, go right ahed ;-) I am betting you thats why it aint being ptached
> > in any hurry, because obv if you read some notes about it in the committs,
> > you will see they must have reproduced the said bugs, in and with, more
> > than JUST bzexe even... but anyhow, your PoC is bs.
>
> I think you misunderstood, he's not talking about memory corruption, his
> attack sounds like a legitimate filesystem race. I'll try to explain, the
> bzexe utility compresses executables and then decompresses them at runtime
> by prepending a decompression stub.

Thank you for explaining him, I thought he was not replying to the good
thread.

> I think it's quite a nice example, and a nice simple solution. Imagine a
> system where crond executes a bzexe utility at regular intervals, Vladz'
> attack will eventually succeed.

Even if bzexe is not used that much, I found similar configurations
(compressed binaries launched via crond) on embedded systems (I think
this is why bzexe was made for).

vladz.

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