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Exim GHOST (glibc gethostbyname) Buffer Overflow
Disclosed | Created |
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01/27/2015 | 05/30/2018 |
Disclosed
01/27/2015
Created
05/30/2018
Description
This module remotely exploits CVE-2015-0235, aka GHOST, a heap-based
buffer overflow in the GNU C Library's gethostbyname functions on x86
and x86_64 GNU/Linux systems that run the Exim mail server.
buffer overflow in the GNU C Library's gethostbyname functions on x86
and x86_64 GNU/Linux systems that run the Exim mail server.
Author
Unknown
Platform
Unix
Architectures
cmd
References
Module Options
To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands ‘show options’ or ‘show advanced’:
msf > use exploit/linux/smtp/exim_gethostbyname_bof msf /(f) > show actions ...actions... msf /(f) > set ACTION < action-name > msf /(f) > show options ...show and set options... msf /(f) > run

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