Buffer overflow attacks : detect, exploit, prevent / James C. Foster, Vitaly Osipov, Nish Bhalla, Neils Heinen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, James C.

Contributor:

Bhalla, Nish.

Heinen, Neils.

Osipov, Vitaly.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer networks--Security measures.

Computer networks.

Computer security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (521 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Rockland, MA : Syngress Publishing, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The SANS Institute maintains a list of the ""Top 10 Software Vulnerabilities."" At the current time, over half of these vulnerabilities are exploitable by Buffer Overflow attacks, making this class of attack one of the most common and most dangerous weapon used by malicious attackers. This is the first book specifically aimed at detecting, exploiting, and preventing the most common and dangerous attacks.Buffer overflows make up one of the largest collections of vulnerabilities in existence; And a large percentage of possible remote exploits are of the overflow variety. Almost all of th

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Chapter 1 Buffer Overflows: The Essentials; Chapter 2 Understanding Shellcode; Chapter 3 Writing Shellcode; Chapter 4 Win32 Assembly; Section 1 Case Studies Case Study 1.1 FreeBSD NN Exploit Code; Chapter 5 Stack Overflows; Chapter 6 Heap Corruption; Chapter 7 Format String Attacks; Chapter 8 Windows Buffer Overflows; Section 2 Case Studies Case Study 2.1 cURL Buffer Overflow on Linux; Chapter 9 Finding Buffer Overflows in Source; Section 3 Case Studies Case Study 3.1 InlineEgg I; Appendix A The Complete Data Conversion Table; Appendix B Useful Syscalls; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-03584-X

9786611035846

0-08-048842-0

1-59749-022-9

OCLC:

780935122