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Orbit Downloader URL Unicode Conversion Overflow

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Orbit Downloader URL Unicode Conversion Overflow

Disclosed
04/03/2008
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in Orbit Downloader. The vulnerability is due to Orbit converting a URL ascii string to unicode in an insecure way with MultiByteToWideChar. The vulnerability is exploited with a specially crafted metalink file that should be opened with Orbit through the "File->Add Metalink..." option.

Author(s)

  • Diego Juarez
  • juan vazquez <juan.vazquez@metasploit.com>

Platform

Windows

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

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