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

["nashleon@gmx.de" <nashleon@gmx.de>]

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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