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Microsoft Internet Explorer isComponentInstalled Overflow

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Microsoft Internet Explorer isComponentInstalled Overflow

Disclosed
02/24/2006
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in Internet Explorer. This bug was patched in Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP SP1 according to MSRC.

Author(s)

  • hdm <x@hdm.io>

Platform

Windows

Development

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

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