meterpreter download function not working properly for me?

[hdm at metasploit.com (HD Moore)]

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 17:15 +0200, Lukas Kuzmiak wrote:
> Another thing i ran into, after i got successful meterpreter session
> with smb2 exploit (i was trying on vista and w2k8 server) I'm not able
> to migrate to other process, it still just hangs on "Migration to
> <pid>.." and nothing, then operation timed out. what could possible
> cause this? I've tried various processes from explorer.exe through
> winlogon ending with word :)

This seems like an artifact of the kernel stager for that specific
exploit, but we haven't done much testing with Vista/Win7 and it may be
more generic. Ill open a ticket, but my guess is it will require fixes
to the ring0->ring3 stager.

-HD