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VERT Vuln School: Stack Overflow 102
By Craig Young on Tue, 03/10/2015
In VERT Vuln School: Stack Overflow 101 we reviewed a contrived example of a simple stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in a binary wrapper for the nMap scanning tool. With this example, I showed how crafted command line parameters could be trigger an overflow of user-controlled data onto the stack. The synscan binary performed no checking on...