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Morris Worm fingerd Stack Buffer Overflow

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Disclosed
1988-11-02
Created
2019-03-19

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 wvu@metasploit.com

Platform

BSD

Architectures

vax

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 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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