Re: Is there any Buffer overflow attack mechanism that can breaka vulnerable server without breaking the ongoing connection?

From: nashleon@xxxxxx
Date: Tue Dec 27 2005 - 09:18:02 EST


Arjan van de Ven escreveu:

buffer overflows do not break connections, and as such I think you are
out of luck.
Having said that.. on modern linux distros it's pretty hard to do a
buffer overflow exploit nowadays (NX[1] to make stacks non-executable,
randomisations, compiler based detection (via FORTIFY_SOURCE and/or
-fstackprotector)... add all those together and it's certainly not easy
to do this....



[1] or emulations of NX such as segment limits techniques




Hello!

Locally is very simple to exploit buffer overflows in the linux kernel. This protections is not
efective very well, so it's possible many attacks... It's possible to return in mmap() area,
overwrite values em syscall table and after that run malicious code using mmap() to allocate
data and many others schemes and techniques.

Linux is very robust and its resources is very good, but it is not yet the solution against buffer overflows.

Best Regards,

Nash Leon -
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