In current nomenclature, Rex Sockets are objects created by calls
to Rex::Socket::<Transport>.create and Rex::Socket.create_...
When the LocalHost or Comm parameters are set to remotely routed
addresses (currently via Meterpreter sessions), Rex will create a
Channel which will abstract communications with the remote end of
the session. These channel based abstractions are called pivots,
and present in three separate flavors:
1 - TcpClientChannel, a fully abstracted, selectable Socket.
2 - TcpServerChannel, a virtual Channel which distributes client
channels.
3 - UdpChannel, a virtual Channel which provides common methods for
UDP socket operations, but is not a full (selectable) abstraction.
Unfortunately this differentiation results in inconsistent returns
from the aforementioned socket creation calls, as the call chain
creates parameters and supplies them to the create method on the
comm object referenced in the params. The comm object may be a
channel, and produce a virtual representation of a socket with
functional methods analogous to Sockets, but without a kernel FD.
This commit begins the work of ensuring that all calls for socket
creation return selectable Rex::Socket objects with semantics
familiar to Ruby developers who have not read into the details of
Rex::Socket and Rex::Post.
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Summary of changes:
Convert Rex::IO::StreamAbstraction to SocketAbstraction and use
the new mixin in StreamAbstraction and DatagramAbstraction. This
approach allows for common methods to reuse the abstraction data
flow, while initializing separate types of socket obects and an
optional monitor as needed.
In the Rex::Post::Meterpreter namespace, extract common methods
from Stream to a SocketAbstraction mixin, include that mixin in
Stream, and add Datagram with the dio_write handler override
exported from the current implementation of UdpChannel, also using
the mixin. This relies on the Rex::IO work above to implement the
proper type of socket abstraction to the Channel descendants.
In Rex::Post::Meterpreter::Extensions::Stdapi::Net, convert the
UdpChannel to inherit from the Rex::Post::Meterpreter::Datagram
class, implementing only the send method at this tier. Convert
create_udp_channel to return the local socket side of the datagram
abstraction presented analogous to the TcpClientChannel approach
used before.
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Notes and intricacies:
In order to implement recvfrom on the UDP abstraction, a shim layer
has been put in place to forward the sockaddr information from the
remote peer to the local UDP socketpair in the abstraction. This
information takes up buffer space in the UDP socket, and in order
to maintain compatibility with consumers, the dio_write_handler
pushes the data buffer, and in a separate send call, he sockaddr
information from the remote socket. On the abstraction side, the
recvfrom_nonblock call of the real UDPSocket has been overriden
via the mixed in module to call the real method twice, once for
the data buffer, and once for the packed sockaddr data. The Rex
level consumer for recvfrom calls the underlying nonblock method
and expects this exact set of returns (as opposed to what standard
library UDPSocket.recvfrom returns, which is a data buffer and an
Array of sockaddr data).
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Testing:
Local and lab testing only so far.
Test RC script to be added in GH comments.
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Issues:
Currently, sendto on a remote socket does not appear to honor
LocalPort which causes DNS responses (#6611) to come from the
wrong port to remote clients being serviced over a pivot socket.
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