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Firefox location.QueryInterface() Code Execution

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Firefox location.QueryInterface() Code Execution

Disclosed
02/02/2006
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a code execution vulnerability in the Mozilla Firefox browser. To reliably exploit this vulnerability, we need to fill almost a gigabyte of memory with our nop sled and payload. This module has been tested on OS X 10.3 with the stock Firefox 1.5.0 package.

Author(s)

  • hdm <x@hdm.io>

Platform

Linux,OSX

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/multi/browser/firefox_queryinterface
msf exploit(firefox_queryinterface) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(firefox_queryinterface) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(firefox_queryinterface) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(firefox_queryinterface) > exploit

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