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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook Practical recipes that combine strategies, attacks, and tools for advanced penetration testing

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789952308
Length 472 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Himanshu Sharma Himanshu Sharma
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Kali - An Introduction 2. Gathering Intel and Planning Attack Strategies FREE CHAPTER 3. Vulnerability Assessment - Poking for Holes 4. Web App Exploitation - Beyond OWASP Top 10 5. Network Exploitation 6. Wireless Attacks - Getting Past Aircrack-ng 7. Password Attacks - The Fault in Their Stars 8. Have Shell, Now What? 9. Buffer Overflows 10. Elementary, My Dear Watson - Digital Forensics 11. Playing with Software-Defined Radios 12. Kali in Your Pocket - NetHunters and Raspberries 13. Writing Reports 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploiting buffer overflows on real software

Now that we have learned about the basics of exploitation, let's try this on some of the software that was already exploited long ago and make some public exploits available. In this recipe, we will learn about publicly available exploits for old software and create our own version of the exploit for it.

Before we begin, we will need an old version of a Windows OS (preferably Windows XP) and a debugger for Windows. I have used Immunity Debugger and old software with a known buffer overflow vulnerability. We will use Easy RM to MP3 Converter. This version had a buffer overflow vulnerability in playing large M3U files.

Getting ready

The free version of Immunity Debugger can be...

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