Re: Anyone looked at the canary stack protection in Win2k3?

You might want to take a look at Gerardo Richarte's paper: "Bypassing Stackshield and StackGuard protection" http://www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=242&idxseccion=11

Abstract:
Stack shielding technologies have been developed to protect programs against exploitation of stack based buffer overflows. Among different types of protections, we can separate two mayor groups. Those that modify the environment where applications are executed, for example PaX now integrated into the OpenWall project, and those that alter the way programs are compiled. We will focus on the last groups, specially in StackGuard, StackShield, and Microsoft's new stack smashing protection.

Techniques that exploit stack based buffer overflows on protected programs and environment have been presented in the past. Here we'll describe how the studied protections work, and then we'll present four more tricks to bypass stack smashing protections, some of which are extentions of older techniques, and some we think are novel.

Mark Feldman wrote:

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> Hi thomas
> There is no need for a tool like IDA pro when you've got source code 
> available under your Visual C++ 7.0 CRT\SRC directory.
> The security check is enabled by adding the /GS option to the compiler's 
> command line.
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> These two links will explain microsoft's stack smashing protection:
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http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2003/n1462.pdf
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
> us/dv_vstechart/html/vctchCompilerSecurityChecksInDepth.asp
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> Regards,
> Mark Feldman 
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