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CA BrightStor Discovery Service Stack Buffer Overflow

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Disclosed
Dec 20, 2004
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability in the CA BrightStor
Discovery Service. This vulnerability occurs when a large
request is sent to UDP port 41524, triggering a stack buffer
overflow.

Authors

hdm [email protected]
aushack [email protected]

Platform

Windows

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/windows/brightstor/discovery_udp
    msf exploit(discovery_udp) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(discovery_udp) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(discovery_udp) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(discovery_udp) > exploit
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