Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit


Published: Apr 08, 2000 Updated: Apr 08, 2000 Section: Network Security Library :: Auditing Author: Aleph One Printable Version Adjust font size: Rating: 4/5 - 45 Votes 1 2 3 4 5

Over the last few months there has been a large increase of buffer overflow vulnerabilities being both discovered and exploited. Examples of these are syslog, splitvt, sendmail 8.7.5, Linux/FreeBSD mount, Xt library, at, etc. This paper attempts to explain what buffer overflows are, and how their exploits work.

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