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MS10-004 Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer TextBytesAtom Stack Buffer Overflow

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MS10-004 Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer TextBytesAtom Stack Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
02/09/2010
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the handling of the TextBytesAtom records by Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer. According to Microsoft, the PowerPoint Viewer distributed with Office 2003 SP3 and earlier, as well as Office 2004 for Mac, are vulnerable. NOTE: The vulnerable code path is not reachable on versions of Windows prior to Windows Vista.

Author(s)

  • SkD
  • Snake
  • jduck <jduck@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/fileformat/ms10_004_textbytesatom
msf exploit(ms10_004_textbytesatom) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(ms10_004_textbytesatom) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(ms10_004_textbytesatom) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(ms10_004_textbytesatom) > exploit

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