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Mercur Messaging 2005 IMAP Login Buffer Overflow

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Mercur Messaging 2005 IMAP Login Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
03/17/2006
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in Atrium Mercur IMAP 5.0 SP3. Since the room for shellcode is small, using the reverse ordinal payloads yields the best results.

Author(s)

  • MC <mc@metasploit.com>

Platform

Windows

Development

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

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