Peter Van Eeckhoutte (corelanc0d3r)
How strong is your fu : Hacking for charity
Last weekend, Offensive Security hosted their second cyber hacking challenge, called “HSIYF For Charity”. The goal of this challenge was to raise money for Johnny Long’s “Hackers for Charity” project, a charity organization that tries to feed children, build computer labs etc in East Africa. Each challenger had to donate $49 to be able to […]
Exploit writing tutorial part 10 : Chaining DEP with ROP – the Rubik’s[TM] Cube
About 3 months after finishing my previous exploit writing related tutorial, I finally found some time and fresh energy to start writing a new article.
In the previous tutorials, I have explained the basics of stack based overflows and how they can lead to arbitrary code execution. I discussed direct RET overflows, SEH based exploits, Unicode and other character restrictions, the use of debugger plugins to speed up exploit development, how to bypass common memory protection mechanisms and how to write your own shellcode.
While the first tutorials were really written to learn the basics about exploit development, starting from scratch (targeting people without any knowledge about exploit development) you have most likely discovered that the more recent tutorials continue to build on those basics and require solid knowledge of asm, creative thinking, and some experience with exploit writing in general.
Today’s tutorial is no different. I will continue to build upon everything we have seen and learned in the previous tutorials. Today I will talk about ROP and how it can be used to bypass DEP (and ASLR)…
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Offensive Security Hacking Tournament – How strong was my fu ?
Hi, Over the last 2 days my friends from Corelan Team and I participated in a Hacking Tournament, organized by Offensive Security. The primary goals of the tournament are : be the first one to grab “secret” information from a machine and post it to the Tournament Control Panel. document your findings and submit them […]
corelanc0d3r interviewed by Slo-Tech
Introduction: We continue our series of interviews with a slightly »unusual« talk this time: Peter Van Eeckhoutte may be unknown to readers who don’t follow the InfoSec scene on a daily basis. But he is well known to the international security community and his name is climbing fast on the list of top security researchers. He’s […]
corelanc0d3r interviewed by CubilFelino Security Research Labs
Hi all, Just wanted to drop a few words about that fact that I have been interview by chr1x (, the maintainer of CubilFelino Security Research Labs (sectester.net). You can read the entire interview here : http://chr1x.sectester.net/corelanc0d3r.php If you have any questions, want to share your thoughts or comments, please use the comments form at […]
Forum restore
Hi all, Due to a server crash this afternoon, I had to restore the forum database from this morning. I have been able to recover some posts from this afternoon, but if you posted questions after 10:00 GMT+1, please check if your posts are still there… If not, please post them again I apologize for […]
Blackhat Europe 2010 Barcelona – Day 10
I got up early this morning, trying to be sharp and well prepared for day 2 of the BlackHat briefings. As some of you may know, I’m not really a morning person, so I usually need some time to wake up and wait until all components in my body start functioning again. After one day […]
Blackhat Europe 2010 Barcelona – Day 01
As some of you might know, I am currently attending Blackhat Europe (hosted in Barcelona this year). So I wanted to take the opportunity to fill you in on the details of this first day of briefings, and provide you with a short overview of the presentations I have attended today. I am most certainly […]
Exploiting Ken Ward Zipper : Taking advantage of payload conversion
In the article I wrote on the abysssec.com website, I explained the steps and techniques needed to build a working exploit for Ken Ward’s zipper. One of the main difficulties I had to overcome when building the exploit, was the character set limitation. I basically could only use a subset of the ascii characters (only […]
QuickZip Stack BOF 0day: a box of chocolates
Over the last couple of weeks, ever since I published 2 articles on the Offensive Blog, I have received many requests from people asking me if they could get a copy of those articles in pdf format. My blog does not include a pdf generator, but it has a “print” button, so you can get […]
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