Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:54:04 +0900 | From | Tomoki Sekiyama <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] AF_UNIX: Fix deadlock on connecting to shutdown socket |
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Hi, thanks for testing!
Américo Wang wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Tomoki Sekiyama > <tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> I found a deadlock bug in UNIX domain socket, which makes able to DoS >> attack against the local machine by non-root users. >> >> How to reproduce: >> 1. Make a listening AF_UNIX/SOCK_STREAM socket with an abstruct >> namespace(*), and shutdown(2) it. >> 2. Repeat connect(2)ing to the listening socket from the other sockets >> until the connection backlog is full-filled. >> 3. connect(2) takes the CPU forever. If every core is taken, the >> system hangs. >> >> PoC code: (Run as many times as cores on SMP machines.)
Sorry for my ambiguous explanation ...
> Interesting... > > I tried this with the following command: > > % for i in `seq 1 $(grep processor -c /proc/cpuinfo)`; > do ./unix-socket-dos-exploit; echo "=====$i====";done <snip> > My system doesn't hang at all. > > Am I missing something? > > Thanks!
You should run the ./unix-socket-dos-exploit concurrently, like below:
for i in {1..4} ; do ./unix-socket-dos-exploit & done
# For safety reason, the PoC code stops in 15 seconds by alarm(15).
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