PPT-Chapter 3.4: Buffer Overflow Attacks

What is an Exploit An exploit is any input ie a piece of software an argument string or sequence of commands that takes advantage of a bug glitch or vulnerability in order to cause an attack. And 57375en 57375ere Were None meets the standard for Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity for grade 8 Its structure pacing and universal appeal make it an appropriate reading choice for reluctant readers 57375e book also o57373ers students . Attacker’s goal. :. Take over target machine (e.g. web server). Execute arbitrary code on target by . hijacking application control flow. This lecture: three examples.. Buffer overflow attacks. Buffer Overflow. modified from slides of . Lawrie. Brown. Buffer Overflow. a very common attack mechanism. first wide use by the Morris Worm in 1988. prevention techniques known. still of major concern. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_buffer_overflow. What is a stack buffer overflow?. Caused when a program writes more data to a buffer on the stack than what was initially allocated for the buffer. Serious Note. Try a web search for “buffer overflow exploit”.. Check alt.2600, rootshell.com, antionline.com – you can find long lists of . exploits. based on buffer overflow.. Even the original version of . overflow. Cecilia Menéndez González. Erick Giovanni Sánchez Madero. Miguel Ángel González Alarcón. Una de las mayores vulnerabilidades de seguridad que tienen los actuales . sistemas . operativos y programas es ser sensibles a un desbordamiento de buffer, o como mejor se les conoce: Buffer . Stack frame layout. #include <. string.h. >. void foo (char *bar). {. . char c[12];. . . strcpy. (c, bar); //no bound. }. int. main (. int. . argc. , char **. argv. ). {. . foo(. argv. & . Rootkits. Warning. Do not use hacking tools unless you are . sure . you have . sysadmin’s. permission.. Company policy .  fired/suspended. Illegal Go to Jail. Honor Code. Just because you have a set of master-keys does NOT give you permission to drive anyone’s car!. Chih. Hung Wang. Reference:. 1. B. Chess and J. West, Secure Programming with Static Analysis, Addison-Wesley, 2007.. 2. R. C. . Seacord. , Secure Coding in C and C , Addison-Wesley, 2006.. 1. Introduction (1). Stack. in the higher parts of memory. Grows down. Used when a . function is called. Data Area. Global variables . not . inizialited. . to zero. BSS [. Block. . Started. by Symbol. ]. Segment. Global variables . modified from slides of . Lawrie. Brown. Buffer Overflow. a very common attack mechanism. first wide use by the Morris Worm in 1988. prevention techniques known. still of major concern. legacy of buggy code in widely deployed operating systems and . Compile time vs Run time main( argc , argv , envp ) int argc ; char ** argv ; char ** envp ; { int i ; char *name, buf [32]; name = getname (); printf ("your name is %s\n", name); Bogi Hansen, Karin M. H. Larsen, Steffen Olsen, Detlef Quadfasel, Kerstin Jochumsen, Svein Østerhus. Canonical value for. IFR-overflow: 1 Sv . IFR. Arctic Mediterranean. WV-overflow:. Western Valley overflow. Secure . Programming:. Buffer Overflow. Dr. Shahriar . Bijani. Shahed. University. Fall 2016. Slides’ . References. Avinash. . Kak. , . Buffer Overflow Attack. , Computer . & Network Security, Purdue University, .