This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by BEIDI DINA SAMUEL
https://github.com/samglish/bufferOverflow/
In french dépassement de tampon ou débordement de tampon
copy data without checking size.
A bug whereby a process, when writing to a buffer, writes outside the space allocated to the buffer, thus overwriting information necessary for the process.
Most common exploitation
- stack overflow
- Injection of a shellcode on the stack and calculation of its address
- Overflow of a variable on the stack
- Overwriting SEIP with the shellcode address
A C program to demonstrate buffer overflow
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
// Reserve 5 byte of buffer plus the terminating NULL.
// should allocate 8 bytes = 2 double words,
// To overflow, need more than 8 bytes...
char buffer[5]; // If more than 8 characters input
// by user, there will be access
// violation, segmentation fault
// a prompt how to execute the program...
if (argc < 2)
{
printf("strcpy() NOT executed....\n");
printf("Syntax: %s <characters>\n", argv[0]);
exit(0);
}
// copy the user input to mybuffer, without any
// bound checking a secure version is strcpy_s()
strcpy(buffer, argv[1]);
printf("buffer content= %s\n", buffer);
// you may want to try strcpy_s()
printf("strcpy() executed...\n");
return 0;
}
Test
Open terminal
- compile the program
gcc -g -o BOF testoverflow.c
- execute
./BOF sam
- output
buffer content= sam
strcpy() executed...
now enter more than 8 characters.
./BOF beididinasamuel
output
buffer content= beididinasamuel
strcpy() executed...
Erreur de segmentation
exploit, use GDB in terminal
$gdb -q ./BOF
output
Reading symbols from ./BOF...
(gdb)
- list the program
(gdb) list 1
output
1 // A C program to demonstrate buffer overflow
2 #include <stdio.h>
3 #include <string.h>
4 #include <stdlib.h>
5
6 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
7 {
8
9 // Reserve 5 byte of buffer plus the terminating NULL.
10 // should allocate 8 bytes = 2 double words,
(gdb)
11 // To overflow, need more than 8 bytes...
12 char buffer[5]; // If more than 8 characters input
13 // by user, there will be access
14 // violation, segmentation fault
15
16 // a prompt how to execute the program...
17 if (argc < 2)
18 {
19 printf("strcpy() NOT executed....\n");
20 printf("Syntax: %s <characters>\n", argv[0]);
(gdb)
21 exit(0);
22 }
23
24 // copy the user input to mybuffer, without any
25 // bound checking a secure version is strcpy_s()
26 strcpy(buffer, argv[1]);
27 printf("buffer content= %s\n", buffer);
28
29 // you may want to try strcpy_s()
30 printf("strcpy() executed...\n");
- breakpoint ( gdb will stop your program just before that function is called)
(gdb) break 26
output
(gdb) break 26
Breakpoint 1 at 0x11ab: file overflow.c, line 26.
- run the program
(gdb) run AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
output
Starting program: Directory/BOF AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Breakpoint 1, main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe038) at overflow.c:26
26 strcpy(buffer, argv[1]);
(gdb)
the program stopped at line 26
let's analyze the data of the variable
(gdb) x/s buffer
output
0x7fffffffdf3b:"001"
(gdb)
for more information on the exploit of content visit click here
https://bufferoverflows.net/getting-started-with-linux-buffer-overflow/
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by BEIDI DINA SAMUEL
BEIDI DINA SAMUEL | Sciencx (2024-06-24T23:28:31+00:00) buffer Overflow (Application Vulnerability). Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2024/06/24/buffer-overflow-application-vulnerability/
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