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Foxit Reader Plugin URL Processing Buffer Overflow

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Disclosed
Jan 7, 2013
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability in the Foxit Reader Plugin, it exists in
the npFoxitReaderPlugin.dll module. When loading PDF files from remote hosts,
overly long query strings within URLs can cause a stack-based buffer overflow,
which can be exploited to execute arbitrary code. This exploit has been tested
on Windows 7 SP1 with Firefox 18.0 and Foxit Reader version 5.4.4.11281
(npFoxitReaderPlugin.dll version 2.2.1.530).

Authors

rgod [email protected]
Sven Krewitt [email protected]
juan vazquez [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/browser/foxit_reader_plugin_url_bof
    msf exploit(foxit_reader_plugin_url_bof) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(foxit_reader_plugin_url_bof) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(foxit_reader_plugin_url_bof) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(foxit_reader_plugin_url_bof) > exploit
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