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Orbit Downloader URL Unicode Conversion Overflow

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Disclosed
Apr 3, 2008
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in Orbit Downloader.
The vulnerability is due to Orbit converting a URL ascii string to unicode
in an insecure way with MultiByteToWideChar.
The vulnerability is exploited with a specially crafted metalink file that
should be opened with Orbit through the "File->Add Metalink..." option.

Authors

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