Buffer Overflow Attacks

The SANS Institute maintains a list of the “Top 10 Software

Vulnerabilities.” At the current time, over half of these

vulnerabilities are exploitable by Buffer Overflow attacks, making this

class of attack one of the most common and most dangerous weapon used by

malicious attackers. This is the first book specifically aimed at

detecting, exploiting, and preventing the most common and dangerous

attacks.

Buffer overflows make up one of the largest collections

of vulnerabilities in existence; And a large percentage of possible

remote exploits are of the overflow variety. Almost all of the most

devastating computer attacks to hit the Internet in recent years

including SQL Slammer, Blaster, and I Love You attacks. If executed

properly, an overflow vulnerability will allow an attacker to run

arbitrary code on the victim’s machine with the equivalent rights of

whichever process was overflowed. This is often used to provide a remote

shell onto the victim machine, which can be used for further

exploitation.

A buffer overflow is an unexpected behavior that

exists in certain programming languages. This book provides specific,

real code examples on exploiting buffer overflow attacks from a hacker’s

perspective and defending against these attacks for the software

developer.

*Over half of the “SANS TOP 10 Software Vulnerabilities” are related to buffer overflows.

*None of the current-best selling software security books focus exclusively on buffer overflows.

*This

book provides specific, real code examples on exploiting buffer

overflow attacks from a hacker’s perspective and defending against these

attacks for the software developer.