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Microsoft Whale Intelligent Application Gateway ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow

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Disclosed
Apr 15, 2009
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in Microsoft Whale Intelligent Application
Gateway Whale Client. When sending an overly long string to CheckForUpdates()
method of WhlMgr.dll (3.1.502.64) an attacker may be able to execute
arbitrary code.

Author

MC mc@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/mswhale_checkforupdates
    msf exploit(mswhale_checkforupdates) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(mswhale_checkforupdates) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(mswhale_checkforupdates) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(mswhale_checkforupdates) > exploit
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