Local Buffer Overflow (User Space) and Stack Overflow Patterns
Explore how to identify and analyze local buffer overflow and stack overflow patterns in Linux user space using core dump analysis. Understand the impact on instruction pointers and stack pointers, and learn diagnostic techniques for detecting memory and stack corruption issues leading to process crashes.
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Local buffer overflow pattern (user space)
This pattern is observed on x86 platforms when a local variable and a function return address and/or saved frame pointer ebp are overwritten with some data. As a result, the instruction pointer ...