[REVS] "Vulnerabilities in your code" Paper Released

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      "Vulnerabilities in your code" Paper Released
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    SUMMARY

    Core Security Team released the second paper from "Vulnerabilities in your
    code" series. It contains information about format strings exploitation
    presented as five examples by gera. Paper shows the exact location of
    vulnerabilities in codes, providing detailed explanations and exploits for
    each one found.

    DETAILS

    Introduction:
    In this paper, Core Security will underline some of the most common
    mistakes made by programmers in their software written in C programming
    language. The vulnerabilities that will be discussed are format strings
    (FS), presented as five examples by gera. We will try to pinpoint the
    exact location of vulnerabilities in the code, why these types of errors
    are dangerous, and provide exploit for each of the vulnerability. It
    should be considered that the environment in which we conduct our tests is
    a Linux Slackware 8.0 server (IA32) with compiler GNU GCC 2.95.3.

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

    The complete paper can be downloaded by going to:
     <http://www.core-sec.com/examples/core_format_strings.pdf>
    http://www.core-sec.com/examples/core_format_strings.pdf

    The information has been provided by <mailto:info@core-sec.com> Core
    Security.

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