module

AOL Desktop 9.6 RTX Buffer Overflow

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Disclosed
Jan 31, 2011
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability found in AOL Desktop 9.6's Tool\rich.rct
component. By supplying a long string of data in the hyperlink tag, rich.rct copies
this data into a buffer using a strcpy function, which causes an overflow, and
results arbitrary code execution.

Authors

sup3r
sickn3ss
sinn3r [email protected]
mr_me [email protected]
silent_dream

Platform

Windows

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/windows/fileformat/aol_desktop_linktag
    msf exploit(aol_desktop_linktag) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(aol_desktop_linktag) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(aol_desktop_linktag) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(aol_desktop_linktag) > exploit
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