The Shellcoder's Handbook(2e druk 2007)

In the technological arena, three years is a lifetime. Since the first edition of this book was published in 2004, built-in security measures on compilers and operating systems have become commonplace, but are still fat from perfect. Arbitrary-code execution vulnerabilities still allow attackers to run code of their choice o your system-with disastrous results.

In a nutshell this book is about code and data and what happens when the two become confused. You'll work with the basic building blocks of security bugs-assembler, source code, the stack, the heap, and so on. You'll experiment, explore, and understand the system you're running-and how to better protect them.

- Become familiar with security holes in windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Cisco's IOS
- Learn how to write customized tools to protect your systems, not just how to use ready-made ones
- Use a working exploit to verify your assessment when auditing a network
- Use proof-of-concept exploits to rate the significance of bugs in software you're developing
- Assess the quality of purchased security products by performing penetration tests based on the information in this book
- Understand how bugs are found and how exploit work at the lowest level