module

Morris Worm fingerd Stack Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
Nov 2, 1988
Created
Mar 19, 2019

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in fingerd on 4.3BSD.

This vulnerability was exploited by the Morris worm in 1988-11-02.
Cliff Stoll reports on the worm in the epilogue of The Cuckoo's Egg.

Currently, only bsd/vax/shell_reverse_tcp is supported.

Authors

Robert Tappan Morris
Cliff Stoll
wvu [email protected]

Platform

BSD

Architectures

vax

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/bsd/finger/morris_fingerd_bof
msf exploit(morris_fingerd_bof) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(morris_fingerd_bof) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(morris_fingerd_bof) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(morris_fingerd_bof) > exploit

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