Reach Out and Hack Someone
Network programming tends to move many chunks of memory around and is heavy in typecasting. You've seen for yourself how crazy some of the typecasts can get. Mistakes thrive in this type of chaos. And since many network programs need to run as root, these little mistakes can become critical vulnerabilities. One such vulnerability exists in the code from this chapter. Did you notice it?
Reach Out and Hack Someone
From hacking-network.h
/* This function accepts a socket FD and a ptr to a destination * buffer. It will receive from the socket until the EOL byte * sequence in seen. The EOL bytes are read from the socket, but * the destination buffer is terminated before these bytes. * Returns the size of the read line (without ...
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