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Solaris LPD Command Execution

Disclosed
Aug 31, 2001
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits an arbitrary command execution flaw in
the in.lpd service shipped with all versions of Sun Solaris
up to and including 8.0. This module uses a technique
discovered by Dino Dai Zovi to exploit the flaw without
needing to know the resolved name of the attacking system.

Platform

Solaris,Unix

Architectures

cmd

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/solaris/lpd/sendmail_exec
msf exploit(sendmail_exec) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(sendmail_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(sendmail_exec) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(sendmail_exec) > exploit

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