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Hyleos ChemView ActiveX Control Stack Buffer Overflow

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Disclosed
2010-02-10
Created
2018-05-30

Description

This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow within version 1.9.5.1 of Hyleos
ChemView (HyleosChemView.ocx). By calling the 'SaveAsMolFile' or 'ReadMolFile' methods
with an overly long first argument, an attacker can overrun a buffer and execute
arbitrary code.

Authors

Paul Craig paul.craig@security-assessment.com
Dz_attacker dz_attacker@hotmail.fr
jduck jduck@metasploit.com

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