Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Cert Guide

Chapter 11. Buffer Overflows, Viruses, and Worms

This chapter covers the following topics:

Buffer Overflows: Buffer overflows are one of the top means of attack and occur primarily because of poor bounds testing.

Viruses and Worms: This category of malware continues to be a real threat and can be used to launch many different types of attacks.

This chapter introduces you to buffer overflows and malicious code. Buffer overflows are a critical subject for the ethical hacker to review and understand. Many of the most successful attacks use a buffer-overflow ...