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Record W2078426974 · doi:10.1145/1501434.1501521

Exploiting a buffer overflow using metasploit framework

2006· article· en· W2078426974 on OpenAlexaff
Mustapha Refai

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Malware Detection Techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ontario Institute of Technology
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBuffer overflowComputer scienceExploitOperating systemUnixSoftwareHost (biology)Computer securitySource codeComputer network

Abstract

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Buffer overflow has been used for many years as an effective mean for system penetration to gain remote access [2, 3, 5, 6, 7]. Buffer overflow exploitation takes advantage of weak software programming such as boundary check for memory usage of declared buffers somewhere in the program to undermine software security and exploit its vulnerability so that attacker can remotely access victim's system. This access can be then escalated either vertical, to gain administrator privilege (in case of windows operating system, or root access, in case UNIX like operating system), or horizontal to access other host in the same network.This paper will try to address the question of, what buffer overflow is. How it happens? How it can be exploited? And what are the defense measures that can be taken to avoid such a problem?As a response to the above questions, a discussion about available commercial and open source software that are used as tools for exploitation are covered. The widely used open source software called Metasploit Framework is used to demonstrate the concept.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.467
Threshold uncertainty score0.539

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.270
Teacher spread0.250 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2006
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