module

Exim GHOST (glibc gethostbyname) Buffer Overflow

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Disclosed
Jan 27, 2015
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module remotely exploits CVE-2015-0235, aka GHOST, a heap-based
buffer overflow in the GNU C Library's gethostbyname functions on x86
and x86_64 GNU/Linux systems that run the Exim mail server.

Author

Unknown

Platform

Unix

Architectures

cmd

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