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BPF_STX Kernel Write Exploit
bpf has a little virtual machine that executes packet filters. The machine includes a "scratch area" which is stored as an array on the stack. There are two instructions that write to that array:
case BPF_ST: mem[pc->k] = A; continue; case BPF_STX: mem[pc->k] = X; continue;
bpf_validate runs first to check the program, and handles BPF_ST correctly, but forgets to handle BPF_STX:
/* * Check that memory operations use valid addresses. */ if ((BPF_CLASS(p->code) == BPF_ST || (BPF_CLASS(p->code) == BPF_LD && (p->code & 0xe0) == BPF_MEM)) && p->k >= BPF_MEMWORDS) return 0;
This allows arbitrary locations on the stack to be modified.
This bug was actually fixed in FreeBSD. [1]
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