Hackers Beware

Ten Buffer Overflow Attacks

Now that you have a detailed understanding of how buffer overflow attacks work and the different variations, we will cover ten different buffer overflow exploits. The first five will be covered in detail; the remaining five will be brief overviews because they are relatively new exploits:

• NetMeeting Buffer Overflow

• Outlook Buffer Overflow

• Linuxconf Buffer Overflow

• ToolTalk Buffer Overflow

• IMPAD Buffer Overflow

• AOL Instant Messenger Buffer Overflow

• AOL Instant Messenger BuddyIcon Buffer Overflow

• Windows 2000 ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow

• IIS 4.0/5.0 Phone Book Server Buffer Overflow

• SQL Server 2000 Extended Stored Procedure Buffer Overflow

These exploits are performed on all systems from UNIX to Windows and include several ...