October 2010
Beginner to intermediate
464 pages
13h 19m
English
Content preview from A Guide to Kernel Exploitation
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Index
Note: Page numbers in italics indicate figures and tables.
A
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Access Control Entries (ACEs), 286
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Access control list (ACL), 286, 290
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Access token, 286, 292–295
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locating, 299
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patching, 299–300
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Alloc algorithm, 144
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AMD64, 57
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APCs. See Asynchronous procedure calls
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Application Binary Interface (ABI), 53
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Arbitrary memory overwrite, 71–74, 229–239, 277
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exploiting architecture, 73–74
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global structures' function pointers, 72
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Architecture level, kernel, 48, 48–58
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Architecture-assisted software tables, 94–95, 95
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Asynchronous interrupts, 365
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Asynchronous procedure calls (APCs), exploiting Windows, 381–383
B
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Brute forcing, 7
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BSD
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derivatives, 125
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of XNU kernel, 197
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Buffer overflow, 24, 28 ...
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