Although the buffer overflow problem has been known for a long time, for the following reasons, it continues to present a serious security threat. Detection methods of buffer overflow attack are defense methods that do not allow overwriting at all, overwriting but do not allow unauthorized change...
Stack-based is the most common type of buffer overflow attack. Most commercial applications have patches available to mitigate buffer vulnerabilities. But applications developed in-house are just as susceptible to buffer overflow, and vulnerabilities may fly under the patching radar. Read up o...
The first worm was created by Robert Morris in 1988. Though he didn’t intend for it to be a malicious creation, the Morris worm infected its host machines many times over in abuffer overflow attack, resulting in computer shutdowns andnearly rendering the Internet unusable. ...
Tempering or resending the routing information can lead to denial of the services of the network by buffer overflows or creating routing self-loops. Due to these unpredictable and complex paths with high mobility of the attacker, it is challenging to detect the attack. 3.2 Attacks at the ...
many of the same exploitable security issues or vulnerabilities exist in both web and mobile apps such as buffer overflows, cross-site scripting (XSS), and SQL injection (SQLi). But iOS and Android present a number of new vectors like dynamic runtime injection, intent hijacking, and a pletho...
stack delivers return address protection to help defend against return-oriented programming (ROP) attack methods. These types of attack methods are part of a class of malware referred to as memory safety issues, and include tactics such as the corruption of stack buffer overflow and use-after-...
In addition to infecting an operating system, malware can also infect various applications. One virus, known as the "Slammer" virus, infects SQL server software. This virus takes control of the server by sending a SQL message that causes a buffer to overflow, which causes the data of the ...
In ping of death DoS attacks, attackers send IP packets larger than the size allowed by IP -- 65,536 bytes. The victim, unable to compute the large packets, suffers from abuffer overflowand potential system crash that enable the attacker to inject malicious code. ...
The SQL Slammer worm used a vulnerability in Microsoft SQL to cause buffer overflows on almost all unpatched SQ: servers connected to the internet. It did in a record time below 10 minutes, and that record has still not been broken any other worm. ...
In this section, we present all the existing code pointer leakage methods we collected from CVEs and prior works and show their attack-critical operations with code pointers. Output Leakage. When a program exists a memory vulnerability, such as buffer overflow or use-after-free, an adversary co...