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Mercury/32 v4.01a IMAP RENAME Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
Nov 29, 2004
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the
Mercury/32 v.4.01a IMAP service.

Platform

Windows

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

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