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AOL Instant Messenger goaway Overflow

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Disclosed
Aug 9, 2004
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a flaw in the handling of AOL Instant
Messenger's 'goaway' URI handler. An attacker can execute
arbitrary code by supplying an overly sized buffer as the
'message' parameter. This issue is known to affect AOL Instant
Messenger 5.5.

Authors

skape mmiller@hick.org
thief thief@hick.org

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