Hi,
in this brief post I will show you the improvements I have made on “Smashing the stack in 2010”. First of all I have improved the bibliography in order to help the readers to learn and delve into as well as to give the credits to others researchers for their works. Then I have rewritten the section “write an exploit” in my Windows part because of lack of clarity in the previous version, now I hope it is suitable to a newbie. Last but not least I have added a new part called “Real Scenario” in which we are going to analyze real exploits, in fact it is important – to gain a real and useful knowledge – to be able to analyze a real attack even it can be complex and sophisticated. In the report I have analyzed in detail CVE-2010-0249 (Operation Aurora exploit) and CVE-2010-2883 (the Adobe cooltype sing table exploit), they are good examples of attacks through memory corruption vulnerabilities. I know that thare are a lot of analyses especially for CVE-2010-2883, but we know the paradigm “learning by doing” 🙂 anyway if you want to read other good works I suggest you the following VUPEN (a great analysis!) and jduck (on Metasploit blog).
Smashing the stack in 2010 (improved) : download
Table of contents (of the new part):
IV Real Scenario 75
8 Attacks and memory corruption 75
9 Memory corruption in practice 76
10 Examples of real attacks 77
10.1 Theory: Heap Spraying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
10.2 CVE-2010-0249 – Internet Explorer 6, 2010 – Graziano. . 78
10.3 CVE-2010-2883 – Adobe Acrobat Reader, 2010 – Graziano . 84
As usual feel free to contact me to ask questions, to give a feedback, to point an error out to me or just to chat 🙂
Happy hacking!! (again 😛 )
Hi, very nice :). I haven’t been catching up the last years on security research. And I’m eager to proceed now. But your guide seems to be a great help to start catching up with late developments…
I have a small question. What software did you use to create these figures? It seems extremely useful to me for computer science related papers. And the figure quality combines nicely with the LaTeX. Please let me know 🙂
thanks for your feedback rob!
To create the figures i have used gimp and then save them as pdf 🙂
cya!