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Message-ID: <20170126215243.58355x6p4o9cc7ks@webmail.alunos.dcc.fc.up.pt>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:52:43 +0100
From: up201407890@...nos.dcc.fc.up.pt
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Noryungi <noryungi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Re: OpenSSH: CVE-2015-6565 (pty issue in
6.8-6.9) can lead to local privesc on Linux
Quoting Noryungi <noryungi@...il.com>:
The PTY slave must be root owned to get root obviously, for example
when root logs in via ssh.
> Does not work on centos 7.1 (unpatched) running stock openssh.
>
> TTY capture works, /tmp/sh is created but user is unprivileged.
>
> On Jan 26, 2017 5:52 PM, <up201407890@...nos.dcc.fc.up.pt> wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I know I'm late to the party, but I was bored, so I decided to write an
>> exploit for CVE-2015-6565 which affects OpenSSH 6.8-6.9
>> It is mostly considered to be a "DoS", even though Jann Horn publicly told
>> how it could be exploited for local privilege escalation, but I guess its
>> either PoC||GTFO for users to update.
>>
>> From https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6565
>>
>> "sshd in OpenSSH 6.8 and 6.9 uses world-writable permissions for TTY
>> devices, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (terminal
>> disruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to a
>> device, as demonstrated by writing an escape sequence."
>>
>> I think the description should be updated.
>>
>> $ gcc not_an_sshnuke.c -o not_an_sshnuke
>> $ ./not_an_sshnuke /dev/pts/3
>> [*] Waiting for slave device /dev/pts/3
>> [+] Got PTY slave /dev/pts/3
>> [+] Making PTY slave the controlling terminal
>> [+] SUID shell at /tmp/sh
>> $ /tmp/sh --norc --noprofile -p
>> # id
>> euid=0(root) groups=0(root)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Federico Bento.
>>
>>
>>
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