Exim GHOST (glibc gethostbyname) Buffer Overflow
01/27/2015
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.
Author(s)
- Unknown
Platform
Unix
Architectures
cmd
Development
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 exploit(exim_gethostbyname_bof) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(exim_gethostbyname_bof) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(exim_gethostbyname_bof) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(exim_gethostbyname_bof) > exploit
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