VeryPDF PDFView OCX ActiveX OpenPDF Heap Overflow
Description
The VeryPDF PDFView ActiveX control is prone to a heap buffer-overflow because it fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied data before copying it into an insufficiently sized memory buffer. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected application.
Author(s)
- MC <mc@metasploit.com>
- dean <dean@zerodaysolutions.com>
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/verypdf_pdfview
msf exploit(verypdf_pdfview) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(verypdf_pdfview) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(verypdf_pdfview) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(verypdf_pdfview) > exploit
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