Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux Buffer Overflow Security Exploits | Date | Thu, 18 Mar 1999 08:15:36 +0100 (MET) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Matthias Urlichs wrote: > R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff) writes: > > is a bit more comfortable than writing a program that continually > > tries to pass illegal arguments to system calls, because when you > > succeeed, you will crash your machine many times before you have > > an "exploit". > > > Umm, if you crash your machine by passing illegal values to syscalls then > you _have_ found an exploit.
Agreed. I meant "an exploit that gives you full control over the machine".
Just crashing a machine is nice for denial of service, but if you want to steal company secrets full control over a machine is much more useful.
Roger.
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