L0pht Advisory: RH Linux 6.0/6.1, PAM and userhelper
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 20:09:05 -0500
From: Dildog <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: L0pht Advisory: RH Linux 6.0/6.1, PAM and userhelper
L0pht Security Advisory
Advisory Name: PamSlam
Advisory Released: [01/04/00]
Application: userhelper and PAM on Redhat Linux 6.0/6.1
Severity: A local user can gain root access.
Status: Vendor contacted. Fix provided by vendor.
Advisory released.
Author: [email protected]
WWW: http://www.l0pht.com/advisories.html
Overview:
Both 'pam' and 'userhelper' (a setuid binary that comes with the
'usermode-1.15' rpm) follow .. paths. Since pam_start calls down to
_pam_add_handler(), we can get it to dlopen any file on disk. 'userhelper'
being setuid means we can get root.
Description:
The combination of the fact that both userhelper and PAM follow ..
paths allows us to craft up a file that causes userhelper (by way of PAM) to
dlopen any shared object we want as root. The exploit is simple, and utilizes
the '-w' option of userhelper, which lets us specify a program to run with the
privileges designated by PAM. This tries to only execute programs that have
entries in /etc/security/console.apps, but since we get to specify the name,
something like ../../../tmp/myprog gets us a file open path that looks like
/etc/security/console.apps/../../../tmp/myprog. "strcat" is not a good way to
keep a filename below a directory!
After this hurdle, PAM is called to start up the binary, and it does
the same thing, looking for the filename in /etc/pam.d. If we've placed a rogue
pam.d configuration file in /tmp/myprog, then it can be pointed to
/etc/pam.d/../../../tmp/myprog. In the pam.d configuration file, we get to pick
a few shared libraries to dlopen, so at this point, we get root.
The following exploit demonstrates this vulnerability by creating a
'rootshell library' that creates a shell when dlopened, creating a pam.d-style
configuration file, and then running userhelper with the appropriately dotted
path.
Quick solution:
Download the fix from RedHat at:
Intel:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/pam-0.68-10.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/usermode-1.17-1.i386.rpm
Alpha:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/alpha/pam-0.68-10.alpha.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/alpha/usermode-1.17-1.alpha.rpm
Sparc:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/sparc/pam-0.68-10.sparc.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/sparc/usermode-1.17-1.sparc.rpm
Source packages:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/SRPMS/pam-0.68-10.src.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/SRPMS/usermode-1.17-1.src.rpm
Red Hat Linux 6.0:
Intel:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/pam-0.68-10.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/usermode-1.17-1.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/i386/SysVinit-2.77-2.i386.rpm
Alpha:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/alpha/pam-0.68-10.alpha.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/alpha/usermode-1.17-1.alpha.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/alpha/SysVinit-2.77-2.alpha.rpm
Sparc:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/sparc/pam-0.68-10.sparc.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/sparc/usermode-1.17-1.sparc.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/sparc/SysVinit-2.77-2.sparc.rpm
Source packages:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/SRPMS/pam-0.68-10.src.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/SRPMS/usermode-1.17-1.src.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/SRPMS/SysVinit-2.77-2.src.rpm
Exploit:
Uudecode the following script. Run the script.
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end
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