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Exploit writing tutorial part 2 : Stack Based Overflows – jumping to shellcode
Where do you want to jmp today ? In one of my previous posts (part 1 of writing stack based buffer overflow exploits), I have explained the basisc about discovering a vulnerability and using that information to build a working exploit. In the example I have used in that post, we have seen that ESP […]
Exploit writing tutorial part 1 : Stack Based Overflows
Last friday (july 17th 2009), somebody (nick)named ‘Crazy_Hacker’ has reported a vulnerability in Easy RM to MP3 Conversion Utility (on XP SP2 En), via packetstormsecurity.org. (see http://packetstormsecurity.org/0907-exploits/). The vulnerability report included a proof of concept exploit (which, by the way, failed to work on my MS Virtual PC based XP SP3 En). Another exploit was […]
Root Cause Analysis – Integer Overflows
Table of ContentsForewordIntroductionAnalyzing the Crash DataIdentifying the Cause of ExceptionPage heapInitial analysisReversing the Faulty FunctionDetermining ExploitabilityChallengesPrerequisitesHeap BasicsLookaside ListsFreelistsPreventative Security MeasuresSafe-UnlinkingHeap CookiesApplication Specific ExploitationThoughts on This AttackGeneric Exploitation MethodsLookaside List OverwriteOverviewApplication Specific TechniqueWhy Not?Brett Moore: Wrecking Freelist[0] Since 2005Freelist[0] Insert AttackOverviewApplication Specific TechniqueWhy Not?Freelist[0] Searching AttackOverviewApplication Specific TechniqueWhy Not?ConclusionRecommended Reading Foreword Over the past few years, […]
Exploit writing tutorial part 6 : Bypassing Stack Cookies, SafeSeh, SEHOP, HW DEP and ASLR
Introduction In all previous tutorials in this Exploit writing tutorial series, we have looked at building exploits that would work on Windows XP / 2003 server. The success of all of these exploits (whether they are based on direct ret overwrite or exception handler structure overwrites) are based on the fact that a reliable return […]
Exploit writing tutorial part 3 : SEH Based Exploits
In the first 2 parts of the exploit writing tutorial series, I have discussed how a classic stack buffer overflow works and how you can build a reliable exploit by using various techniques to jump to the shellcode. The example we have used allowed us to directly overwrite EIP and we had a pretty large […]
HITB2014AMS – Day 1 – Harder, Better, Faster Fuzzer: Advances in BlackBox Evolutionary Fuzzing
Vulnerability Hunting Active security testing, Fabien explains, is the process of generating input which travel in the application, hit a sink and violate a property. It applies to all kinds of vulnerabilities, not just limited to buffer overflows or memory corruption bugs. Blackbox and whitebox/greybox testing (both static and dynamic) are ways to perform […]
Root Cause Analysis – Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
Introduction For the past year or so I’ve spent a significant amount of time fuzzing various applications with the hopes of identifying exploitable crashes. Early on in my research I quickly realized that building fuzzers and generating large quantities of crashes, even for heavily targeted applications, was easy. However, determining the exploitability of these crashes, […]
HITB2012AMS Day 2 – PostScript – Danger Ahead
Good morning everyone, welcome back at Hack In The Box 2012 Amsterdam ! Before looking at the first talk that I attended today, I would like to mention that you can find copies of the talks and materials on the hitb.org website. Files are made available right after a talk or lab finishes, you […]
Exploit writing tutorial part 11 : Heap Spraying Demystified
A lot has been said and written already about heap spraying, but most of the existing documentation and whitepapers focus on IE7 or older versions.
Although there are a number of public exploits available that target IE8, the exact technique to do so has not been really documented in detail.
Of course, you can probably derive how it works by looking at those public exploits.
With this tutorial, I’m going to provide you with a full and detailed overview on what heap spraying is, and how to use it on old and newer platforms.
I’ll start with some “ancient” techniques (or classic techniques if you will) that can be used on IE6 and IE7.
We’ll also look at heap spraying for non-browser applications.
Next, we’ll talk about precision heap spraying, which is a requirement to make DEP bypass exploits work on IE8.
I’ll finish this tutorial with sharing some of my own research on getting reliable heap spraying to work on IE9.
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Metasploit Bounty – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
On June 14, 2011 HD Moore announced the Metasploit Bounty contest, offering a cash incentive for specific vulnerabilities to be submitted as modules in the Metasploit Framework. Titled “30 exploits, $5000 in 5 weeks”, a post on the Rapid7 blog lists the 30 “bounties” selected by the MSF team, waiting for someone to claim and submit a working exploit module.
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