Gray Hat Hacking The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Fifth Edition, 5th Edition

CHAPTER 12

Advanced Linux Exploits

Now that you have the basics under your belt from reading Chapter 11, you are ready to study more advanced Linux exploits. The field is advancing constantly, with new techniques always being discovered by hackers and countermeasures being implemented by developers. No matter how you approach the problem, you need to move beyond the basics. That said, we can only go so far in this book—your journey is only beginning. The “For Further Reading” section at the end of this chapter will give you more destinations to explore.

In this chapter, we discuss the following topics:

•   Format string exploits

•   Memory protection schemes

Format String Exploits

Format string exploits became public in late 2000. Unlike buffer ...