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Exploiting heap overflows on XP SP2

nicolas.fallieregmail.com
Date: Thu Aug 18 2005 - 10:56:20 CDT


Hi,

I describe a new way to exploit heap-based buffer overflows in the following paper:

http://www.packetstormsecurity.com/papers/bypass/bypassing-win-heap-protections.pdf

Basically, one can use critical section related linking structures stored on the process’s default heap to produce a n*4-byte overwrite. Gaining control is another problem, only memory overwrite is discussed in the paper.

NF