full-disclosure - Re: [FD] new email; gw22067@...mail.com | Double-free segfault bypass

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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:06:59 -0700
From: Matthew Fernandez <matthew.fernandez@...il.com>
To: keliikoa kirland <keliikoakirland@...il.com>
Cc: fulldisclosure@...lists.org
Subject: Re: [FD] new email;
	gw22067@...mail.com | Double-free segfault bypass

Maybe I’m misunderstanding something, but what is the vulnerability here? It looks like you are just demonstrating that a program can corrupt its own heap, which it can already do in numerous other ways. 

> On 26 Mar 2018, at 00:26, keliikoa kirland <keliikoakirland@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> Tested on: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
> Version: 4.04
> 
> On 24 March 2018 at 18:11, keliikoa kirland <keliikoakirland@...il.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Details from old email:
>> =========================================
>> "Double-Free bypass PoC is self-explanatory as well; 2 free's equate to a
>> double-free heap corruption segfault; using mmap() disables that segfault
>> and allows more than 1 free on any malloc'd/mmap'd variable. You can free
>> `x` 4+ times and it'll still exit cleanly. brk() has already been patched;
>> which is why i put // 1day next to it; same misalignment/technique to
>> mmap() which is still vuln/can be abused to write use-after-free's without
>> having the need to bypass heap corruption segfaults."  brk() was equal to
>> mmap() in PoC below; mmap() --> brk() --> free() --> free() --> clean exit;
>> now just mmap() --> free() --> free()
>> 
>> PoC:
>> =========================================
>> joe@...ntu:~$ cat test1.c
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> #include <stdlib.h>
>> #include <string.h>
>> #include <sys/mman.h>
>> 
>> int main(void){
>>    void *p = mmap(0x1000, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED |
>> MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0);
>> 
>>    void *z = malloc(p);
>>    free(z);
>>    free(z);
>> }
>> 
>> joe@...ntu:~$ ./test1
>> *** Error in `./test1': double free or corruption (top): 0x08332008 ***
>> Aborted (core dumped)
>> 
>> joe@...ntu:~$ cat test1.c
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> #include <stdlib.h>
>> #include <string.h>
>> #include <sys/mman.h>
>> 
>> int main(void){
>>    void *p = mmap(0x1000, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED |
>> MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0);
>>    p = mmap(0x2000, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED |
>> MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0);
>> 
>>    void *z = malloc(p);
>>    free(z);
>>    free(z);
>> }
>> 
>> joe@...ntu:~$ ./test1
>> joe@...ntu:~$ bl1ng bl1ng n1gg4z ;PppPpP
>> 
>> References/Credits/Greetz:
>> =========================================
>> ac1db1tch3z koa
>> https://github.com/x0r1
>> http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198333157214/
>> 
>> 
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