module

Yahoo! Messenger YVerInfo.dll ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow

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Disclosed
2007-08-30
Created
2018-05-30

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in the Yahoo! Messenger ActiveX
Control (YVerInfo.dll to the "fvCom()" method from a yahoo.com domain, 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/yahoomessenger_fvcom
    msf exploit(yahoomessenger_fvcom) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(yahoomessenger_fvcom) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(yahoomessenger_fvcom) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(yahoomessenger_fvcom) > exploit
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