On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 02:26:10PM -0700, Tavis Ormandy wrote: > > The question is how to get PATHALLOC() to succeed under memory pressure so we > can make this exploitable, my first thought was have another thread > manipulating the free pool, but I can't figure out how to synchronize > that. Getting code execution should be trivial after this. > > I guess it's possible to just race it until we win, but this seems like an > inelegant solution. Anyone have any ideas? >
Ahh, I just realised a really cute trick, we can make PATHREC->next point to the same userspace PATHREC, and EPATHOBJ::bFlatten will spin forever traversing an infinite linked list. i.e. PathRecord->next = PathRecord; While it's spinning, another thread can clean up the pool, then patch the listnode (because it's in userspace), to break into pprFlattenRec! Turning this into a clean write-what-where should be trivial. Anyone want to volunteer to write it up over the weekend? :) Tavis. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/