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AOL Desktop 9.6 RTX Buffer Overflow

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AOL Desktop 9.6 RTX Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
01/31/2011
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability found in AOL Desktop 9.6's Tool\rich.rct component. By supplying a long string of data in the hyperlink tag, rich.rct copies this data into a buffer using a strcpy function, which causes an overflow, and results arbitrary code execution.

Author(s)

  • sup3r
  • sickn3ss
  • sinn3r <sinn3r@metasploit.com>
  • mr_me <steventhomasseeley@gmail.com>
  • silent_dream

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

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