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MS08-078 Microsoft Internet Explorer Data Binding Memory Corruption

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Disclosed
Dec 7, 2008
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability in the data binding feature of Internet
Explorer. In order to execute code reliably, this module uses the .NET DLL
memory technique pioneered by Alexander Sotirov and Mark Dowd. This method is
used to create a fake vtable at a known location with all methods pointing
to our payload. Since the .text segment of the .NET DLL is non-writable, a
prefixed code stub is used to copy the payload into a new memory segment and
continue execution from there.

Author

hdm [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/ms08_078_xml_corruption
    msf exploit(ms08_078_xml_corruption) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(ms08_078_xml_corruption) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(ms08_078_xml_corruption) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(ms08_078_xml_corruption) > exploit
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