The Shellcoder's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes, 2nd Edition

by Chris Anley; John Heasman; Felix Lindner; Gerardo Richarte

• ISBN13: 9780470198827
• ISBN10: 0470198826
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This much-anticipated revision, written by the ultimate group of top security experts in the world, features 40 percent new content on how to find security holes in any operating system or application New material addresses the many new exploitation techniques that have been discovered since the first edition, including attacking "unbreakable" software packages such as McAfee's Entercept, Mac OS X, XP, Office 2003, and Vista Also features the first-ever published information on exploiting Cisco's IOS, with content that has never before been explored The companion Web site features downloadable code files

Table of Contents

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

Introduction to the Second Edition

Introduction to Exploitation: Linux on x86

Before You Begin

Stack Overflows

Shellcode

Introduction to Format String Bugs

Introduction to Heap Overflows

Other PlatformsùWindows, Solaris, OS/X, and Cisco

The Wild World of Windows

Windows Shellcode

Windows Overflows

Overcoming Filters

Introduction to Solaris Exploitation

Advanced Solaris Exploitation

OS X Shellcode

Cisco IOS Exploitation

Protection Mechanisms

Vulnerability Discovery

Establishing a Working Environment

Fault Injection

The Art of Fuzzing

Source Code Auditing: Finding Vulnerabilities in C-Based Languages

Instrumented Investigation: A Manual Approach

Tracing for Vulnerabilities

Binary Auditing: Hacking Closed Source Software

Advanced Materials

Alternative Payload Strategies

Writing Exploits that Work in the Wild

Attacking Database Software

Unix Kernel Overflows

Exploiting Unix Kernel Vulnerabilities

Hacking the Windows Kernel

Index

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