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

by Daniel Regalado, Shon Harris, Allen Harper, Chris Eagle, Jonathan Ness, Branko Spasojevic, Ryan Linn, Stephen Sims
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
17h 12m
English
McGraw-Hill
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CHAPTER 17

Next-Generation Patch Exploitation

In response to the lucrative growth of vulnerability research, the interest level in the binary diffing of patched vulnerabilities continues to rise. Privately disclosed and internally discovered vulnerabilities typically offer limited technical details publicly. The process of binary diffing can be compared to a treasure hunt, where researchers are given limited information about the location and details of a vulnerability, or “buried treasure.” Given the proper skills and tools, a researcher can locate and identify the code changes and then develop a working exploit.

In this chapter, we cover the following topics:

•   Application and patch diffing

•   Binary diffing tools

•   Patch management ...

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