module

Firefox location.QueryInterface() Code Execution

Disclosed
Feb 2, 2006
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a code execution vulnerability in the Mozilla
Firefox browser. To reliably exploit this vulnerability, we need to fill
almost a gigabyte of memory with our nop sled and payload. This module has
been tested on OS X 10.3 with the stock Firefox 1.5.0 package.

Platform

Linux,OSX

Architectures

ppc, x86

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/multi/browser/firefox_queryinterface
msf exploit(firefox_queryinterface) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(firefox_queryinterface) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(firefox_queryinterface) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(firefox_queryinterface) > exploit

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