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MS11-038 Microsoft Office Excel Malformed OBJ Record Handling Overflow

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Disclosed
Jun 8, 2010
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability found in Excel 2002 of Microsoft Office XP.
By supplying a .xls file with a malformed OBJ (recType 0x5D) record an attacker
can get the control of the execution flow. This results in arbitrary code execution under
the context of the user.

Authors

Nicolas Joly
Shahin Ramezany [email protected]
juan vazquez [email protected]

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/ms10_038_excel_obj_bof
    msf exploit(ms10_038_excel_obj_bof) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(ms10_038_excel_obj_bof) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(ms10_038_excel_obj_bof) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(ms10_038_excel_obj_bof) > exploit
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