CVE-2016-0846 : Detail

CVE-2016-0846

8.4
/
High
A01-Broken Access Control
0.09%V3
Local
2016-04-17
22h00 +00:00
2017-09-07
07h57 +00:00
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CVE Descriptions

libs/binder/IMemory.cpp in the IMemory Native Interface in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-04-01 does not properly consider the heap size, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, as demonstrated by obtaining Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, aka internal bug 26877992.

CVE Informations

Related Weaknesses

CWE-ID Weakness Name Source
CWE-264 Category : Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.

Metrics

Metrics Score Severity CVSS Vector Source
V3.0 8.4 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Base: Exploitabilty Metrics

The Exploitability metrics reflect the characteristics of the thing that is vulnerable, which we refer to formally as the vulnerable component.

Attack Vector

This metric reflects the context by which vulnerability exploitation is possible.

Local

A vulnerability exploitable with Local access means that the vulnerable component is not bound to the network stack, and the attacker's path is via read/write/execute capabilities. In some cases, the attacker may be logged in locally in order to exploit the vulnerability, otherwise, she may rely on User Interaction to execute a malicious file.

Attack Complexity

This metric describes the conditions beyond the attacker's control that must exist in order to exploit the vulnerability.

Low

Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.

Privileges Required

This metric describes the level of privileges an attacker must possess before successfully exploiting the vulnerability.

None

The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.

User Interaction

This metric captures the requirement for a user, other than the attacker, to participate in the successful compromise of the vulnerable component.

None

The vulnerable system can be exploited without interaction from any user.

Base: Scope Metrics

An important property captured by CVSS v3.0 is the ability for a vulnerability in one software component to impact resources beyond its means, or privileges.

Scope

Formally, Scope refers to the collection of privileges defined by a computing authority (e.g. an application, an operating system, or a sandbox environment) when granting access to computing resources (e.g. files, CPU, memory, etc). These privileges are assigned based on some method of identification and authorization. In some cases, the authorization may be simple or loosely controlled based upon predefined rules or standards. For example, in the case of Ethernet traffic sent to a network switch, the switch accepts traffic that arrives on its ports and is an authority that controls the traffic flow to other switch ports.

Unchanged

An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same authority. In this case the vulnerable component and the impacted component are the same.

Base: Impact Metrics

The Impact metrics refer to the properties of the impacted component.

Confidentiality Impact

This metric measures the impact to the confidentiality of the information resources managed by a software component due to a successfully exploited vulnerability.

High

There is total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all resources within the impacted component being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact. For example, an attacker steals the administrator's password, or private encryption keys of a web server.

Integrity Impact

This metric measures the impact to integrity of a successfully exploited vulnerability. Integrity refers to the trustworthiness and veracity of information.

High

There is a total loss of integrity, or a complete loss of protection. For example, the attacker is able to modify any/all files protected by the impacted component. Alternatively, only some files can be modified, but malicious modification would present a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.

Availability Impact

This metric measures the impact to the availability of the impacted component resulting from a successfully exploited vulnerability.

High

There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Temporal Metrics

The Temporal metrics measure the current state of exploit techniques or code availability, the existence of any patches or workarounds, or the confidence that one has in the description of a vulnerability.

Environmental Metrics

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V2 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C [email protected]

EPSS

EPSS is a scoring model that predicts the likelihood of a vulnerability being exploited.

EPSS Score

The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%). The higher the score, the greater the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited.

EPSS Percentile

The percentile is used to rank CVE according to their EPSS score. For example, a CVE in the 95th percentile according to its EPSS score is more likely to be exploited than 95% of other CVE. Thus, the percentile is used to compare the EPSS score of a CVE with that of other CVE.

Exploit information

Exploit Database EDB-ID : 39686

Publication date : 2016-04-10
22h00 +00:00
Author : Google Security Research
EDB Verified : Yes

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=706 Android: IMemory Native Interface is insecure for IPC use Platform: Tested on Android 6.0.1 January patches Class: Elevation of Privilege Summary: The IMemory interface in frameworks/native/libs/binder/IMemory.cpp, used primarily by the media services can be tricked to return arbitrary memory locations leading to information disclosure or memory corruption. Description: The IMemory interface allows the passing of shared memory across the Binder IPC channel on Android. The interface supports a single remote call, GET_MEMORY which requests a separate IMemoryHeap interface along with an offset value and size for the shared memory buffer. The IMemoryHeap interface in turn supports a HEAP_ID call which marshals across a FileDescriptor, size, flags and an offset. This is passed to mmap to map the shared memory into the current process. The underlying vulnerability is the sizes in IMemory and IMemoryHeap are not checked relative to one another, and nor is the offset in IMemory checked against the size of IMemoryHeap. This allows a local process to craft fake IMemory and IMemoryHeap objects such that they lie about their values and either cause information disclosure or memory corruption. To understand this let’s look at how the pointer to the shared buffer is extracted from IMemory::pointer: void* IMemory::pointer() const { ssize_t offset; sp<IMemoryHeap> heap = getMemory(&offset); void* const base = heap!=0 ? heap->base() : MAP_FAILED; if (base == MAP_FAILED) return 0; return static_cast<char*>(base) + offset; <- No check on IMemoryHeap size } Maybe we check sizes in getMemory() ? sp<IMemoryHeap> BpMemory::getMemory(ssize_t* offset, size_t* size) const { if (mHeap == 0) { Parcel data, reply; data.writeInterfaceToken(IMemory::getInterfaceDescriptor()); if (remote()->transact(GET_MEMORY, data, &reply) == NO_ERROR) { sp<IBinder> heap = reply.readStrongBinder(); ssize_t o = reply.readInt32(); size_t s = reply.readInt32(); <- No check. if (heap != 0) { mHeap = interface_cast<IMemoryHeap>(heap); if (mHeap != 0) { mOffset = o; mSize = s; } } } } if (offset) *offset = mOffset; if (size) *size = mSize; return mHeap; } Nope, as we can see, no check is made of IMemoryHeap’s size, so you could specify a mapped file smaller than offset and create a pointer out of bounds. Of course if IMemoryHeap is invalid then the mmap process will return MAP_FAILED which will end up as NULL after the call to pointer(). So how can this be abused? Any IPC service which calls pointer() can be tricked into accessing an arbitrary location, either a relative offset to the file mapped or NULL. For example look at ICrypto::onTransact with the DECRYPT operation. It checks that the offset is within the total size (this has been exploited before) with: } else if (totalSize > sharedBuffer->size()) { result = -EINVAL; } else if ((size_t)offset > sharedBuffer->size() - totalSize) { result = -EINVAL; The size is the value returned through IMemory, and not the actual mapped size from IMemoryHeap so in this case offset can be arbitrary. With the right plugin (such as the clearkey plugin) we can get this to read arbitrary memory. Even more so as there’s no NULL checking in pointer() we can cause IMemoryHeap to fail which causes pointer() to return NULL. Setting size to 0xFFFFFFFF means we can read any memory location from 0 to 0xFFFFFFFF. This can be turned into an arbitrary write as long as you can pass an arbitrary IMemory to another service. For example the BnCameraRecordingProxy::onTransact in frameworks/av/camera/ICameraRecordingProxy.cpp does the following for onReleaseRecordingFrame case RELEASE_RECORDING_FRAME: { ALOGV("RELEASE_RECORDING_FRAME"); CHECK_INTERFACE(ICameraRecordingProxy, data, reply); sp<IMemory> mem = interface_cast<IMemory>(data.readStrongBinder()); if (CameraUtils::isNativeHandleMetadata(mem)) { VideoNativeHandleMetadata *metadata = (VideoNativeHandleMetadata*)(mem->pointer()); metadata->pHandle = data.readNativeHandle(); // releaseRecordingFrame will be responsble to close the native handle. } releaseRecordingFrame(mem); return NO_ERROR; } break; As you can coerce the pointer value, as long as the first 4 bytes make the integer 3 the next 4 bytes will be overwritten by the native handle value which can be controlled. Proof of Concept: I’ve provided a PoC which exploits the issue in ICrypto::decrypt. I will just SIG_SEGV on reading an arbitrary location (in this case 1GiB relative to the mapped memory). If it succeeds then that’s good as well as it shouldn't succeed. You should be able to create default Android Studio project and replace the MainActivity with the provided Java file. When run it should cause media server to crash. Proof of Concept: https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/39686.zip

Products Mentioned

Configuraton 0

Google>>Android >> Version 4.0

Google>>Android >> Version 4.0.1

Google>>Android >> Version 4.0.2

Google>>Android >> Version 4.0.3

Google>>Android >> Version 4.0.4

Google>>Android >> Version 4.1

Google>>Android >> Version 4.1.2

Google>>Android >> Version 4.2

Google>>Android >> Version 4.2.1

Google>>Android >> Version 4.2.2

Google>>Android >> Version 4.3

Google>>Android >> Version 4.3.1

Google>>Android >> Version 4.4

Google>>Android >> Version 4.4.1

Google>>Android >> Version 4.4.2

Google>>Android >> Version 4.4.3

Google>>Android >> Version 5.0

Google>>Android >> Version 5.0.1

Google>>Android >> Version 5.1

Google>>Android >> Version 5.1.0

Google>>Android >> Version 6.0

Google>>Android >> Version 6.0.1

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39686/
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