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PeerCast URL Handling Buffer Overflow

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PeerCast URL Handling Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
03/08/2006
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in PeerCast <= v0.1216. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of URL parameters.

Author(s)

  • MC <mc@metasploit.com>

Platform

Linux

Architectures

x86

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 exploit/linux/http/peercast_url
msf exploit(peercast_url) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(peercast_url) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(peercast_url) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(peercast_url) > exploit

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