Beyond Stack Smashing: Recent Advances in Exploiting Buffer Overruns

  • Authors:
  • Jonathan Pincus;Brandon Baker

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research;Microsoft

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This article describes three powerful general-purpose families of exploits for buffer overruns: arc injection, pointer subterfuge, and heap smashing. These new techniques go beyond the traditional "stack smashing" attack and invalidate traditional assumptions about buffer overruns.