Re: Assembler/C References

From: Dave Aitel (daveat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 10:13:44 PDT

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    http://lsd-pl.net/ are the reigning champions in this tournament.
    They've also collected most of the reference documents you're going to
    need. :>
    
    -dave
    
    
    
    On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 12:32, Evan wrote:
    > I'm currently looking for the exact same things you are: good references on C 
    > and Assembler.   I curious more about libnet and KLD's than buffer overflows, 
    > but that's not important.  Anyway, the best I've found so far are as follows:
    > 
    > "Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit" by Aleph1-  it's clearly written and, 
    > although it assumes a certain knowledge of assembler, makes sense without it.  
    > It made much more sense to me than mudge's tutorial from the old l0pht site.  
    > I have seen another essay floating around called "Advanced Buffer Overflows" 
    > or something logical like that, which purports to aid in writing exploits 
    > that do more than spawn a shell.  I haven't read it, personnally, but you 
    > might look around.
    > 
    > "The C Programming Language: Second Edition" by Brian Kernighan and Dennis 
    > Ritchie-  the first (second?) and, in many opinions, still the best.  This 
    > book flat out assumes that you're already a "good" programmer, so if you 
    > don't at least know how an array works or what a function is good for, you 
    > might try starting somewhere else.  But the examples are challenging and 
    > relevant, the prose is clear, the reference section is solid, and the 
    > author's qualifications are unmatched: Dennis Ritchie invented C.  I don't 
    > know how well this book would work on anything but Un*x.
    > 
    > I'm not so sure about general Assembler references.  I think that there's a 
    > Linux Assembler HOWTO floating around somewhere, so you might check that.  It 
    > seems a little short, though.
    > 
    > Anyway, best of luck and let me know what you find.
    > 
    > On Monday 15 July 2002 05:29 pm, Jeremy Junginger wrote:
    > > n00b question:
    > >
    > > I'm diving into Assembler and C with the hopes of understanding
    > > application level exploits a little more in depth.  In your opinion,
    > > what are the most beneficial references/tutorials/threads/tools that
    > > helped you get started on your journeys to buffer-overflow-nirvana?
    > > I've read the Introduction to Buffer Overflow by Ghost Rider as well as
    > > the Buffer overflow how-to by Mudge, and both were very valuable.  GDB
    > > appears to be a very strong tool to assist with finding and exploiting
    > > overflows.  Any additional references out there?  Coding is a bit new to
    > > me...so like the human torch says..."Flame ON!!!"
    > >
    > > -Jeremy
    > 
    > 
    
    
    
    



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