VLC Media Player 0.8.6 (udp://) Format String Exploit PoC (ppc)
#!/usr/bin/perl
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# http://www.digitalmunition.com/VLCMediaSlayer-ppc.pl
# Code by Kevin Finisterre kf_lists[at]digitalmunition[dot]com
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# This is just a vanilla format string exploit for OSX on ppc. We overwrite a saved return addy with our shellcode address.
# This code currently overwrites the saved return addy with the stack location of our shellcode.
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# This exploit will create a malicious .m3u file that will cause VLC Player for OSX to execute arbitrary code.
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