Hi, I am trying to do a security research experiment on FreeBSD. I try to test the Nginx Vulnerability CVE-2013-2028 on FreeBSD 10.1 x86-64, with Nginx 1.3.9/1.4.0. (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2028)
However, most exploit samples can succeed on Linux, but not FreeBSD. The basic idea for the exploit, is to send a packet with a very large chunk size, making the victim process stack-overflow. After Nginx's many crashes, the attacker can find enough gadgets to launch a return-oriented programming attack. However, it is hard to let Nginx worker process crash (due to overwritten return address) on FreeBSD. Process crash is the first step of the whole exploit. I do the experiment on both local and remote (LAN) machines. This exploit requires: ----------------------------------------------------------------- This also includes an IP fragmentation router to make the attack possible on WANs. Nginx does a non-blocking read on a 4096 byte buffer, and typical MTUs are 1500, so IP fragmentation is needed to deliver a large TCP segment that will result in a single read of over 4096 bytes. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Any comments/suggestions on this, just to make the victim process crash? Here are two exploit code examples, which can run against Linux target, but fail to make the Nginx worker process crash on FreeBSD: http://www.scs.stanford.edu/brop/ http://www.scs.stanford.edu/brop/nginx-1.4.0-exp.tgz https://www.exploit-db.com/docs/27074.pdf http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jul/att-90/ngxunlock_pl.bin Thanks very much for your time!! Best, Peter
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