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VLC Media Player RealText Subtitle Overflow

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Disclosed
2008-11-05
Created
2018-05-30

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in
VideoLAN VLC RealText subtitle files.

In order to exploit this, this module will generate two files:
The .mp4 file is used to trick your victim into running. The .rt file
is the actual malicious file that triggers the vulnerability, which
should be placed under the same directory as the .mp4 file.

Authors

Tobias Klein
SkD
juan vazquez juan.vazquez@metasploit.com

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