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EMC ApplicationXtender (KeyWorks) ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
09/29/2009
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in the KeyWorks KeyHelp ActiveX Control (KeyHelp.ocx 1.2.3120.0). This ActiveX Control comes bundled with EMC's Documentation ApplicationXtender 5.4.

Author(s)

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

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