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Claymore Dual GPU Miner Format String dos attack

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Disclosed
Feb 6, 2018
Created
Jun 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.

Authors

res1n
bluebird

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 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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