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Avid Media Composer 5.5 - Avid Phonetic Indexer Buffer Overflow

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Avid Media Composer 5.5 - Avid Phonetic Indexer Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
11/29/2011
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in process AvidPhoneticIndexer.exe (port 4659), which comes as part of the Avid Media Composer 5.5 Editing Suite. This daemon sometimes starts on a different port; if you start it standalone it will run on port 4660.

Author(s)

  • vt [nick.freeman <vt [nick.freeman@security-assessment.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/misc/avidphoneticindexer
msf exploit(avidphoneticindexer) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(avidphoneticindexer) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(avidphoneticindexer) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(avidphoneticindexer) > exploit

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