Corpus ID: 17301620

Attack code return address Local variables buffer FFFF 0000 Stack Growth String Growth

@inproceedings{Cowan1999AttackCR,
  title={Attack code return address Local variables buffer FFFF 0000 Stack Growth String Growth},
  author={C. Cowan and S. Beattie and R. Day and C. Pu and P. Wagle and E. Walthinsen},
  year={1999}
}

C. Cowan, S. Beattie, +3 authors E. Walthinsen

Published 1999

The StackGuard compiler provides robust automatic protection against the all-too-common problem of stack smashing vulnerabili-ties. However, this protection is only provided for programs and libraries that are re-compiled with StackGuard. Thus protecting an entire system requires that all potentially vulnerable programs be re-compiled to assure that an attacker cannot exploit a stack smashing vulnerability to gain privilege on the system. This paper describes securing a Linux distribution… CONTINUE READING

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