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Created for CrikeyCon 3, 20 February 2016

tl; dr

If you're in a hurry, you're almost certainly looking for the following resources:

• dostackbufferoverflowgood.exe - an intentionally vulnerable Windows program
• dostackbufferoveflowgood_tutorial.pdf - A PDF tutorial that explains how to exploit the above program

A brief history

The resources in this repo were created for a talk at Crikeycon in 2016. A recording of that talk is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=renR0Aj2YzI.

How you can support me

Please share these resources with your friends. They are freely licensed, so you are even welcome to present them at your local hacker meetup or in your company. All I ask is that you credit me as the original author.

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Abstract

Did you miss out on stack-smashing for enjoyment and financial gain? Have you always meant to get in to "all that debugger stuff" but don't know your EIP from your ESP? Let's take it back to the 90s for an overview of Win32 stack buffer overflow exploitation.

We'll cover assembly, registers, the stack, function call and return mechanics, triggering stack buffer overflows, taking advantage of saved return pointer overwrites, generating shellcode, and some other weird tricks.

This is not new stuff, and modern mitigations (ASLR, DEP and stack canaries) totally harsh its mellow. If you're a stack savant who has a handle on the heap and ROPs relentlessly then this content isn't for you. For everyone else, may you learn to pop calc not alert(1)

Contents of this repo

• dostackbufferoverflowgood.exe - Intentionally vulnerable binary. Compiled without ASLR, DEP or Stack Canaries.
• dostackbufferoverflowgood_tutorial.pdf - A tutorial for the above binary
• dostackbufferoverflowgood_slides.pdf - Presentation slides
• dostackbufferoverflowgood - Optional Visual Studio solution for dostackbufferoverflow.exe
• dostackbufferoverflowgood.pdb - Optional Debug symbols for dostackbufferoverflowgood.exe

License

The code for dostackbufferoverflowgood.exe is licensed under Apache License Version 2.0

The slides and tutorial are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

You are welcome to modify and redistribute this material, provided you credit me as the original author.