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$ An open security advisory #17 - VMWare ActiveX lame local overflow
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1: Bug Researcher: c0ntex - c0ntexb[at]gmail.com -+- www.open-security.org
2: Bug Released: August 18th or so... 2006
3: Bug Impact Rate: Code execution
4: Bug Scope Rate: Local
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$ This advisory and/or proof of concept code must not be used for commercial gain.
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Since this is a local only for ActiveX component, it requires being emailed or distribution via some
p2p file share network or p2p chat networks. Pretty useless :)
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WinXP Pro SP2 lame local VMWare Buffer Overflow
Discovered and developed by c0ntex - c0ntexb@gmail.com
Visit my website at http://www.open-security.org
This will exploit overflow and execute calc.exe on WinXP Pro SP2
(fully patched) against VMWare 5.5.1 Initialize ActiveX member.
I have only found a bad solution to this bug. Due to the fact that
my controlling assembler is a call dword ptr[reg] I need to point
to a location I control, fine. However my payload is random pretty
much every run. Therefor I fill half a HUGE buffer with the address
(pointer) to my evil buffer, which them trampolines me to shellcode