full-disclosure - Re: vm86 syscall kernel-panic and some more goodies waiting to be analyzed

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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 20:49:24 +0000
From: halfdog <me@...fdog.net>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: vm86 syscall kernel-panic and some more
 goodies waiting to be analyzed

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halfdog wrote:
> It seems that at least on 32-bit Debian-sid kernel in VirtualBox 
> guest, [1] triggers a kernel-panic. This simple POC does not allow 
> privilege escalation although there might be also some time-race 
> component involved, sometimes similar code seems to access 
> uninitialized memory or triggers NULL-dereferences. Therefore the 
> simple POC code could be extended for more extensive testing. See
> [2] for more information.
> 
> hd

I've created [1] to ease discovery of new problematic code
combinations. Good use is to run it with e.g.

socat TCP4-LISTEN:1234,reuseaddr=1,fork=1
EXEC:./Virtual86RandomCode,nofork=1

And send random data via network:

tee TestInput < /dev/urandom | socat - TCP4:x.x.x.x:1234 > ProcessedBlocks

And watch your console or dmesg output (when your kernel did not lock
up completely)


hd

[1]
http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2013/Vm86SyscallTaskSwitchKernelPanic/Virtual86RandomCode.c

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