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KaraZajac 24b839eccf pwnkit: fix the gconv re-injection layout so the exploit actually lands root 
The exploit reported EXPLOIT_OK but did NOT get root on a genuinely vulnerable
target (Ubuntu 20.04.0, polkit 0.105-26ubuntu1). pkexec printed "Cannot run
program pwnkit" + glibc "Could not open converter from UTF-8 to PWNKIT" and no
root shell was obtained — a false positive from the dispatcher's "execve
transferred → clean exit = OK" path.

Root cause: the module built workdir/pwnkit/{gconv-modules,PWNKIT.so} correctly
but omitted the two pieces that make the GCONV_PATH trick fire:
  1. a directory literally named "GCONV_PATH=." containing an executable
     "pwnkit", so pkexec's g_find_program_in_path() resolves argv[0] and
     RE-INJECTS GCONV_PATH=./pwnkit into the sanitised environment; and
  2. chdir(workdir) so the re-injected relative "./pwnkit" resolves to the
     gconv dir.
It also set an absolute GCONV_PATH=<workdir>/pwnkit directly in envp, which
pkexec strips (GCONV_PATH is on polkit's blacklist) — removed.

VM-verified after the fix on Ubuntu 20.04.0 / 5.4.0-26 (polkit 0.105-26ubuntu1):
unprivileged sk -> uid=0(root), confirmed out-of-band (wrote /root/, read
/etc/shadow). overlayfs (CVE-2021-3493) also confirmed landing root on the same
host; sudo_samedit returns an honest EXPLOIT_FAIL there (heap not landed).

Found via the new qemu exploit-verification sweep (root confirmed out-of-band,
not from the module's self-report).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0118iUgHY44hdRtANgyCmu7y
2026-07-23 19:40:04 -04:00

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