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How does ASCII-Armoring help to prevent buffer-overflow attacks?
I was reading about return-to-libc attacks at Wikipedia.
According to what I read and understood from the article, ASCII armoring means that binary data is converted into ASCII values by grouping ...
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How non-executable are implemented? [duplicate]
In the "Hacking the art of Exploitation" its said that the basic idea of stack overflows attacks is that the operating system can't differentiate instructions from data inside the stack ,and the ...
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Dangers of a vulnerability in a local installer?
I sent a message to my dev manager about a buffer overflow in our (widely distributed) installer, and received a response that it didn't matter as it wasn't server code.
Other than the fact that if ...
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Bypassing Address Space Layout Randomization
How effective is ASLR in preventing arbitrary code execution in a buffer overflow type exploit? How hard is it for an attacker to bypass this without simply guessing where the addresses are?
