Re: Function pointer attacks.

1999-11-03 Thread Crispin Cowan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know is this tecnique is already known but since I added a protection for it in Stack Shield I decided to post it. The attack form is well known. There was an exploit against SuperProbe in 1997 that used this technique. The new Stack Shield 0.6 beta has a

Function pointer attacks.

1999-11-01 Thread vendicator
I don't know is this tecnique is already known but since I added a protection for it in Stack Shield I decided to post it. This is a "stack smashing" technique that allows to beat StackGuard and Stack Shield (before the version 0.6). It is simple: if a function with an overflowable buffer