Re: solaris root-setuid script to gain root?

["Vitalik N." <robert.morris.jr () gmail com>]

On 7/1/07, Thomas Pollet <thomas.pollet () gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 30/06/07, Vitalik N. <robert.morris.jr () gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I was doing pen testing the other day and I found one root suid script
> > left by some of the web developers:
> >
> > -rwsr-x--x  1 root   users  /home/web/c.cgi
> >
> > which is basically a bash script:
> >
> > ------ cut ------------
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > uname
> > ------ cut ------------
> >
> > And our system was recently compromised. Some local user was able to
> > gain root access. Could this script be the way of gaining root access?
> >
> > According to http://www.unix.com/tips-and-tutorials/36711-the-whole-story-on-usr-bin-ksh.html
> > "Because it was not possible to write a secure suid shell script, the concept
> > of suid shell scripts was removed from Unix." But then it says "Solaris now
> > supports suid shell" !
> > I tried modifying the PATH variable and creating my own "uname" program.
> > But my uname program runs with local user privs instead of root. I
> > also tried the
> did you put a setuid(0) in your uname program?
>
> f.i.:
> cat >uname.c<<EOF
> #include <unistd.h>
> int main (int argc, char **argv, char **envp) {
> setuid(0);
> setgid(0);
> execve("/bin/sh",argv,envp);
> }
> EOF
>
> > other attack described in the link above: "link to -i" but this didn't
> > work as well.
> > So could this script be the problem?
> >
> > P.S: The machine runs SunOS 5.6 with all updates
>
> Regards,
> Thomas Pollet

Yes, my uname programs was exactly the same. But I used execl call instead
of execve (don't think that would make any difference). I also tried
setting euid
(seteuid(0)).
Using a bash script for "uname" program didn't work either:

% cat uname
#!/bin/sh
touch /tmp/test
chown root /tmp/test

the script complains about privileges and can't execute chown.

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