Re: Beating memory address randomization (secuirty) features in Unix/Linux

I saw null byte at the first byte of libc addresses like system execve etc..
I was running 2.6.13 kernel on a x86 32 bit architecture ( slackware 10.2 )
also I saw it when I tried to exploit a tiny application on another 32/x86
running a 2.6.10 kernel ( slackware 10 ) .
I checked again ( after your reply ) on my new 64/x86 running the lastest
version of kernel ( 2.6.16 slackware 10.2 ) and there was no null byte at
the first.
thanks for your reply but no idea if ret-tolibc is always possible .

Kaveh Razavi
Network Security Researcher

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
>
> Erm, what "distros" are you talking about? I run the latest
> Gentoo on sparc64, pa-risc and ppc and none of them
> have a nil byte in libc addresses. Besides, that doesn't
> always matter.
>
> Think deeper, you're not always working with strings.
>
> Below are some pastes of functionality on different
> architectures. Notice the only one that actually shows
> nil bytes is sparc64, but you wont have to worry about
> that because you're not going to jump to the first 255
> bytes.
>
> Don "north" Bailey
>
> Here's SuSE on x86
>
> givingtree.north % ./showstack
> &buffer[0]=bf9947b7
> givingtree.north % ./showstack
> &buffer[0]=bff50067
> givingtree.north % ldd ./showstack
>          linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
>          libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7e39000)
>          /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f59000)
> givingtree.north % uname -mr
> 2.6.16-rc6-givingtree i686
> givingtree.north %
>
>
> Here's Gentoo on PA-RISC
>
> visualize.north % ./showstack
> &buffer[0]=faf2c5c8
> visualize.north % ./showstack
> &buffer[0]=fb16a5c8
> visualize.north % ldd showstack
>          libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x406ad000)
>          /lib/ld.so.1 => /lib/ld.so.1 (0x4037d000)
> visualize.north % uname -mr
> 2.6.16-rc5-visualize parisc
> visualize.north %
>
>
> Here's Gentoo on sparcv9
>
> blueberry.snow % ./showstack
> &buffer[0]=ef80d997
> blueberry.snow % ./showstack
> &buffer[0]=efeed997
> blueberry.snow % ldd showstack
>          libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x70030000)
>          /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x70000000)
> blueberry.snow % uname -mr
> 2.6.16.1-blueberry sparc64
> blueberry.snow %
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: PGP Desktop 9.0.5 (Build 5050)
>
> iQA/AwUBRC2mpV/Ie1ANMtLuEQKRCgCg0xBuYb2UX66el7eKeA3LDNhsXGoAn32k
> HVnpOIYhjgAzCzoDeSd7V5G/
> =o9Xn
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>