Real security information is hard to come by

Before you read this, I recommend you type "man memfrob" and "man strfry" on your nearest Linux system. I had no idea Linux libC had so many inside jokes. I think it says a lot about the character of the system. In other news, Real was finally told about my HelixServer remote, after a copy of...

Remote buffer overflow condition in post-query (CGI).

The overflow condition is very easily exploitable, since the code actually supplies the pointer to the exploit code itself, odd as it maye seem. The pointer thusly does not need to be second-guessed at all, making life much easier for crackers. Code excerpts; ... define MAXENTRIES 10000 typedef...

XFree86 server overflow - exploit issues

While trying to exploit this overflow, I noticed that the problem lies in lovely strcpy call, which overwrites stack. Unfortunately, any 'offending' non-alphanumeric characters are replaced with '' somewhere before. Uh, most of people will say "it's impossible to write alphanumeric shellcode, so ...