Buffer Overflow white paper

One of the common means of attacking software is through an exploit known as Buffer Overflow. We ran across this white paper and thought that it might be of interest to you. The link is below the abstract. This paper is intended for a developer, however its worth a read to give you an idea of the ways hackers can attack you. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————-

Buffer Overflows: Anatomy of an Exploit A Look at How Systems are Exploited, and Why These Exploits Exist

Joshua Hulse

n3v3rm0r3.nevermore@gmail.com

January 10, 2012

This paper will look at how buffer overflows occur on the stack. It will outline how the stack should be visualized when software engineers code in languages that requires manual memory management(assembly, c, c++, etc) and the importance of the ‘null terminating character’ in possible vulnerabilities.

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 Read the entire paper here    (Adobe Acrobat Document (1.3 MB)