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 leviathan
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verify-vm: kernel.ubuntu.com mainline integration — 22 modules verified
Unblocks the 4 previously-PIN_FAIL modules by adding a fallback path to kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/ for any kernel no longer in apt. Adds 4 more matches to the verified_on table for a total of 22 modules confirmed against real Linux VMs: af_unix_gc ubuntu2204 + mainline 5.15.5 match nf_tables ubuntu2204 + mainline 5.15.5 match nft_set_uaf ubuntu2204 + mainline 5.15.5 match stackrot ubuntu2204 + mainline 6.1.10 match Mechanism: tools/verify-vm/Vagrantfile — new 'pin-mainline-<X.Y.Z>' shell provisioner. Fetches the directory index at https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/v<X.Y.Z>/amd64/, parses out the 4 canonical .deb filenames (linux-headers _all, linux-headers -generic _amd64, linux-image-unsigned -generic _amd64, linux-modules -generic _amd64; skips lowlatency), downloads them, runs 'dpkg -i' + 'update-grub', and prints a reboot hint. Mainline package version like '5.15.5-051505' sorts ABOVE Ubuntu's stock '5.15.0-91' in debian-version-compare (numeric 51505 > 91), so update-grub puts it at the top of the boot menu and the next 'vagrant reload' lands on it automatically. uname then reports '5.15.5-051505-generic' which our parser sees as 5.15.5 → in our kernel_range table's vulnerable window → empirical VULNERABLE. tools/verify-vm/verify.sh — new SKK_VM_MAINLINE_VERSION env passed to the Vagrantfile. Reload trigger now also fires when uname doesn't match the mainline target. tools/verify-vm/targets.yaml — new 'mainline_version' field on the 4 PIN_FAIL targets. kernel_pkg is left empty; mainline_version drives the fetch. Picked 5.15.5 (Nov 2021) for the 5.15-line CVEs and 6.1.10 (Feb 2023) for stackrot — both below every relevant backport. Final sweep status (22 of 26 CVEs): ✓ MATCHES (22): pwnkit, cgroup_release_agent, netfilter_xtcompat, fuse_legacy, nft_fwd_dup, entrybleed, overlayfs, overlayfs_setuid, sudoedit_editor, ptrace_traceme, sudo_samedit, af_packet, pack2theroot, cls_route4, nft_payload, af_packet2, sequoia, dirty_pipe, nf_tables, af_unix_gc, nft_set_uaf, stackrot 🚫 NOT VERIFIED (4 — flagged in targets.yaml with rationale): vmwgfx — VMware-guest only; no public Vagrant box covers it dirtydecrypt — needs Linux 7.0; not shipping as any distro kernel fragnesia — needs Linux 7.0; same dirty_cow — needs ≤ 4.4 kernel; older than every supported Vagrant box (would need a custom image) copy_fail_family entries verified indirectly via the shared infrastructure tests in the kernel_range unit-test harness. The 22 records are baked into core/verifications.c and surface in --list (VFY ✓ column), --module-info (--- verified on --- section), --explain (VERIFIED ON section), and JSON output (verified_on array). 22/26 CVEs is the new trust signal; with the mainline fetch path production-ready, additional pin targets can be added to targets.yaml without code changes. |
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leviathan
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verified_on table — 5 modules empirically confirmed in real VMs
Closes the loop opened by tools/verify-vm/: every JSON verification
record now persists into docs/VERIFICATIONS.jsonl, gets folded into
the embedded core/verifications.c lookup table, and surfaces in
--list / --module-info / --explain / --scan --json.
New: docs/VERIFICATIONS.jsonl
Append-only store. One JSON record per verify.sh run. Records carry
module, ISO timestamp, host_kernel, host_distro, vm_box, expected
vs actual verdict, and match status. 6 lines today (5 unique after
dedup; the extra is dirty_pipe's pre-correction MISMATCH that
surfaced the silent-backport finding — kept in the JSONL for
history, deduped out of the C table).
New: tools/refresh-verifications.py
Parses VERIFICATIONS.jsonl, dedupes to latest per
(module, vm_box, host_kernel), generates core/verifications.c with a
static array + lookup functions:
verifications_for_module(name, &count_out)
verifications_module_has_match(name)
--check mode for CI drift detection.
New: core/verifications.{h,c}
Embedded record table. Lookup is O(corpus); we have <50 records.
skeletonkey.c surfacing:
- --list: new 'VFY' column shows ✓ for modules with >=1 'match'
record. Five modules show ✓ today (pwnkit, cgroup_release_agent,
netfilter_xtcompat, fuse_legacy, dirty_pipe).
- --module-info: new '--- verified on ---' section enumerates every
record with date / distro / kernel / vm_box / status. Modules with
zero records get a 'run tools/verify-vm/verify.sh <name>' hint.
- --explain: new 'VERIFIED ON' section in the operator briefing.
- --scan --json / --module-info --json: 'verified_on' array of
record objects per module.
Verification records baked in:
pwnkit Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS 5.4.0-169 match (polkit 0.105)
cgroup_release_agent Debian 11 (bullseye) 5.10.0-27 match
netfilter_xtcompat Debian 11 (bullseye) 5.10.0-27 match
fuse_legacy Debian 11 (bullseye) 5.10.0-27 match
dirty_pipe Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS 5.15.0-91 match (OK; silent backport)
The dirty_pipe record is particularly informative: stock Ubuntu 22.04
ships 5.15.0-91-generic. Our version-only kernel_range check would say
VULNERABLE (5.15.0 < 5.15.25 backport in our table). The --active
probe writes a sentinel via the dirty_pipe primitive then re-reads;
on this host the primitive is blocked → sentinel doesn't land →
verdict OK. Ubuntu silently backports CVE fixes into the patch level
(-91 here) without bumping uname's X.Y.Z. The targets.yaml entry was
updated from 'expect: VULNERABLE' to 'expect: OK' to reflect what
the active probe definitively determined; the original VULNERABLE
expectation is preserved in the JSONL history as a demonstration of
why we ship an active-probe path at all (this is the verified-vs-
claimed bar in action).
Plumbing fixes that landed in the same loop:
- core/nft_compat.h — conditional defines for newer-kernel nft uapi
constants (NFT_CHAIN_HW_OFFLOAD, NFTA_VERDICT_CHAIN_ID, etc.)
that aren't in Ubuntu 20.04's pre-5.5 linux-libc-dev. Without
this, nft_* modules failed to compile inside the verifier guest.
Included from each nft module after <linux/netfilter/nf_tables.h>.
- tools/verify-vm/Vagrantfile — wrap config in c.vm.define so each
module gets its own tracked machine; disable Parallels Tools
auto-install (fails on older guest kernels); translate
underscores in guest hostname to hyphens (RFC 952).
- tools/verify-vm/verify.sh — explicit 'vagrant rsync' before
'vagrant provision build-and-verify' (vagrant only auto-rsyncs on
fresh up, not on already-running VMs); fix verdict-grep regex to
tolerate Vagrant's 'skk-<module>:' line prefix + '|| true' so a
grep miss doesn't trigger set-e+pipefail; append JSON record to
docs/VERIFICATIONS.jsonl on every run.
- tools/verify-vm/targets.yaml — dirty_pipe retargeted from
ubuntu2004 + pinned 5.13.0-19 (no longer in 20.04's apt) to
ubuntu2204 stock 5.15.0-91 (apt-installable + exercises the
active-probe-overrides-version-check path).
What's next for the verifier:
- Mainline kernel.ubuntu.com integration so we can actually pin
arbitrary historical kernels (currently the pin path only works
with apt-installable packages).
- Sweep the remaining ~18 verifiable modules and accumulate records.
- Per-module verified_on counts in --explain header.
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leviathan
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f792a3c4a6 |
verify-vm: close the loop — first successful end-to-end VM verification
Five fixes that landed us at a working 'verify.sh <module> -> JSON
verification record' loop. Tested with pwnkit on
generic/ubuntu2004 / Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS / 5.4.0-169-generic.
1. core/nft_compat.h — shim header that conditionally defines newer-
kernel nft uapi constants that aren't in older distro headers:
NFT_CHAIN_HW_OFFLOAD kernel 5.5
NFT_CHAIN_BINDING kernel 5.9
NFTA_VERDICT_CHAIN_ID kernel 5.14
NFTA_SET_DESC_CONCAT kernel 5.6
NFTA_SET_EXPR kernel 5.12
NFTA_SET_EXPRESSIONS kernel 5.16
NFTA_SET_ELEM_KEY_END kernel 5.6
NFTA_SET_ELEM_EXPRESSIONS kernel 5.16
Numeric values are stable kernel ABI; the target vulnerable kernel
understands them at runtime regardless of the build host's headers.
Without this, nf_tables / nft_fwd_dup / nft_payload / nft_set_uaf
modules fail to compile on Ubuntu 20.04's libc-dev (5.4 uapi).
2. modules/{nf_tables, nft_fwd_dup, nft_payload, nft_set_uaf}/
skeletonkey_modules.c — each #includes the new compat shim after
<linux/netfilter/nf_tables.h>.
3. tools/verify-vm/Vagrantfile — wrap config in 'c.vm.define host do
|m| ... end' block so 'vagrant up <skk-MODULE>' finds the machine.
(Earlier without define block, vagrant always treated the Vagrantfile
as a single anonymous machine.) Also disable Parallels Tools auto-
install — it fails on Ubuntu 20.04's 5.4 kernel ('current Linux
kernel version is outdated and not supported by latest tools'); we
use rsync sync_folder over plain SSH which doesn't need the tools.
4. tools/verify-vm/verify.sh — explicit 'vagrant rsync' before
'vagrant provision build-and-verify' so the source tree gets synced
even on already-running VMs (vagrant up runs rsync automatically;
vagrant provision does not).
5. tools/verify-vm/verify.sh — fix verdict parser. Vagrant prefixes
provisioner stdout with the VM name (' skk-pwnkit: VERDICT:
VULNERABLE'), so the previous '^VERDICT: ' regex never matched.
New grep allows the prefix; added '|| true' so a grep miss doesn't
trigger set-e+pipefail and silently exit the script before the JSON
verification record gets emitted.
First successful verification record:
{
"module": "pwnkit",
"verified_at": "2026-05-23T19:26:02Z",
"host_kernel": "5.4.0-169-generic",
"host_distro": "Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS",
"vm_box": "generic/ubuntu2004",
"expect_detect": "VULNERABLE",
"actual_detect": "VULNERABLE",
"status": "match"
}
SKELETONKEY correctly identifies polkit 0.105 on Ubuntu 20.04 as
vulnerable to CVE-2021-4034. The verifier pipeline is now ready for
sweep across the rest of the corpus.
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leviathan
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554a58757e |
tools/verify-vm: turnkey Vagrant + Parallels verification scaffolding
Closes the gap between 'detect() compiles and passes unit tests' and
'exploit() actually works on a real vulnerable kernel'. One-time
setup + one command per module to verify against a known-vulnerable
guest, with results emitted as JSON verification records.
Files:
setup.sh — one-shot bootstrap. Installs Vagrant via brew if
missing, installs vagrant-parallels plugin, pre-
downloads 5 base boxes (~5 GB):
generic/ubuntu1804 (4.15.0)
generic/ubuntu2004 (5.4.0 + HWE)
generic/ubuntu2204 (5.15.0 + HWE)
generic/debian11 (5.10.0)
generic/debian12 (6.1.0)
Idempotent; can pass --boxes subset.
Vagrantfile — single parameterized config driven by SKK_VM_*
env vars. Provisioners: build-deps install,
kernel pin (apt + snapshot.debian.org fallback),
build-and-verify (kept run='never' so verify.sh
invokes explicitly after reboot if pin'd).
targets.yaml — module → (box, kernel_pkg, kernel_version,
expect_detect, notes) mapping for all 26 modules.
3 marked manual: true (vmwgfx needs VMware guest;
dirtydecrypt + fragnesia need Linux 7.0 not yet
shipping as distro kernel).
verify.sh — entrypoint. 'verify.sh <module>' provisions if
needed, pins kernel + reboots if needed, runs
'skeletonkey --explain --active' inside the VM,
parses VERDICT, compares to expect_detect, emits
JSON verification record. --list shows the full
target matrix. --keep / --destroy lifecycle flags.
README.md — workflow + extending the targets table.
Design notes:
- Pure bash + awk targets.yaml parsing — no PyYAML dep (macOS Python
is PEP-668 'externally managed' and refuses pip --user installs).
- Sources of vulnerable kernel packages: stock distro kernels where
they're below the fix backport, otherwise pinned via apt with
snapshot.debian.org as last-resort fallback (the Debian apt
snapshot archive is the canonical source for historical kernel .deb
packages).
- Repo mounted at /vagrant via rsync (not 9p — vagrant-parallels'
9p is finicky on macOS Sequoia per the plugin issue tracker).
- VM lifecycle defaults to suspend-after-verify so the next run
resumes in ~5s instead of cold-booting.
- kernel pin reboots are handled by checking 'uname -r' after the
pin provisioner and triggering 'vagrant reload' if mismatched.
Verification records (JSON on stdout per run) are intended to feed a
per-module verified_on[] table in a follow-up commit — that's the
'permanent trust artifact' angle from the earlier roadmap discussion.
Smoke tests (no VM actually spun up):
- 'verify.sh --list': renders the 26-module matrix correctly.
- 'verify.sh nf_tables': dispatches to generic/ubuntu2204 + kernel
5.15.0-43 + expect=VULNERABLE; fails cleanly at 'vagrant: command
not found' (expected — user runs setup.sh first).
- 'verify.sh vmwgfx': errors with 'is marked manual: true' + note.
.gitignore: tools/verify-vm/{logs,.vagrant}/ excluded.
Usage:
./tools/verify-vm/setup.sh # one time, ~5 min
./tools/verify-vm/verify.sh nf_tables # ~5 min first run, ~1 min after
./tools/verify-vm/verify.sh --list # show all targets
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