Lab 1

Checkpoint: April 18th 2016, 8pm

Final Due: April 29th 2016, 8pm

Goal

The Environment

Here is an example of a public key:

ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDTKPi45wxeSezgO5JmG8HiuAQH6R3kqQTeOeTbntWxliiClrahwlnkv26PAIaQKNdRbVH1fgX9kyUfsdj5JAvvNFuxpfY+GVVZKFI5M3CuzAynIymBjqnDn6Auq+tuSl8O4osb/0L9zDeQzOxQ+ed6iVDuPPkBLoX+XyuNUyYKV46xCIHOS6ao+6CkZXhp4VTz4LUvb1s8DIUcaD8/bbigxxZH3eKRQH2arV9AqP1LoC2T3azLTkHvCrcImpjVW/pxf5+nbkRb1SSkkHFvFPdd+0us12yGOp1xBbo2kuKWSdcBgd4eiGHQsO+VWi23R92bcOh/DxRZumdMyaDBMGY/ user@localhost

Generating Key Pairs

Linux/Mac:

To generate the key-pair run the following (it is strongly suggested to use a passphrase):

ssh-keygen -t rsa -f <key_name>

To use ssh (after we have created your account):

ssh -i <path_to_private_key> <username>@codered.cs.washington.edu

Windows:

To generate the key-pair use PuTTYgen. It comes installed with PuTTY.

1) Open PuTTYgen

2) Select the type of key as SSH-2 RSA

3) Click Generate and move the mouse around to generate entropy

4) (Optional but recommended) Enter a Passphrase + Confirmation of Passphrase

5) Click save the private key

6) Copy the text of the public key to post/email from the box at the top

To ssh (with PuTTY):

On the left side, select Connection->SSH->Auth. In this pane, browse to your private key, and then login as usual. You may want to save the session for a quicker login next time. (Note, if you generated your ssh key pairs using Linux and you want to use it in windows, you will need to use PuTTYgen to convert it from .pem to .ppk before using it)

The Targets

The Exploits

The ~/sploits/ directory contains the source for the exploits which you are to write, along with a Makefile for building them. Also included is shellcode.h, which gives Aleph One's shellcode.

The Assignment

You are to write an exploit for each target #1-7. Each exploit, when run on the remote machine, should yield a hax0red[i] shell (/bin/sh). To confirm this is working, run the command whoami in the shell, and you should see the hax0red[i] user.

Extra Credit

Target8 is extra credit! You can see that the source code is exactly the same as target0, except this time, the stack is not executable. You might want to try a return2libc attack. Here’s a good tutorial for it RET2LIBC (starting from page 52).

Hints

Warnings

Aleph One gives code that calculates addresses on the target's stack based on addresses on the exploit's stack. Addresses on the exploit's stack can change based on how the exploit is executed (working directory, arguments, environment, etc.); in our testing, we do not guarantee to execute your exploits as bash does. You must therefore hard-code target stack locations in your exploits. You should not use a function such as get_sp() in the exploits you hand in.

Deliverables

Misc

Credits

This project was originally designed for Dan Boneh and John Mitchell's CS155 course at Stanford, and was then also extended by Hovav Shacham at UCSD. Thanks Dan, John, and Hovav!