buffer Overflow (Application Vulnerability)

Published at

6/24/2024

Categories

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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)

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https://bufferoverflows.net/getting-started-with-linux-buffer-overflow/

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buffer Overflow (Application Vulnerability)

Test

now enter more than 8 characters.

exploit, use GDB in terminal

let's analyze the data of the variable