April 2005
Intermediate to advanced
700 pages
20h 39m
English
book
Sockets, Shellcode, Porting, and Coding: Reverse Engineering Exploits and Tool Coding for Security Professionals
by James C Foster
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Compilation
obsd32# cc -o udp1 udp1.c
Example Execution
obsd32# ./udp1
socket() success.
udp1.c is a simple program that attempts to create a UDP socket.
Analysis
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At line 11 and 12, the sys/socket.h and netinet/in.h header files are included.
These files contain the function prototypes and data structures required to use
the socket() function.
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At line 19, the socket() function is called.The first parameter is the integer con-
stant AF_INET (defined in sys/socket.h).This constant indicates that the socket
is of the AF_INET address family.The AF_INET address family indicates
usage of IPv4 addressing.
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The second parameter passed to the socket() function is the ...
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