Rapid7

module

Mercury/32 PH Server Module Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
Dec 19, 2005
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in
Mercury/32 due to a failure of the application to properly bounds check
user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed size memory buffer.

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

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