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Heroes of Might and Magic III .h3m Map file Buffer Overflow

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Disclosed
Jul 29, 2015
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module embeds an exploit into an uncompressed map file (.h3m) for
Heroes of Might and Magic III. Once the map is started in-game, a
buffer overflow occurring when loading object sprite names leads to
shellcode execution.

Authors

Pierre Lindblad
John AAkerblom

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/fileformat/homm3_h3m
    msf exploit(homm3_h3m) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(homm3_h3m) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(homm3_h3m) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(homm3_h3m) > exploit
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