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Claymore Dual GPU Miner Format String dos attack

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Claymore Dual GPU Miner Format String dos attack

Disclosed
02/06/2018
Created
06/14/2018

Description

Claymore’s Dual GPU Miner 10.5 and below is vulnerable to a format strings vulnerability. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to read memory addresses, or immediately terminate the mining process causing a denial of service.

Author(s)

  • res1n
  • bluebird

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 auxiliary/dos/tcp/claymore_dos
msf auxiliary(claymore_dos) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(claymore_dos) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(claymore_dos) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(claymore_dos) > run

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