Exploiting default exception handler to increase exploit stability on win32

From: tal zeltzer <tal.zeltzer_at_gmail.com>
Date: 1 Nov 2004 19:02:56 -0000

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Summary:

Every win32 application has a default exception handler which can be abused to increase
exploit stability in the case of a stack overflow


Impact:

The results of such attack is an exploit with two return addresses

Proof of Concept:

a tutorial And proof of concept code is available at

http://www.securityforest.com/wiki/index.php/Exploit:_Stack_Overflows_-_Exploiting_default_seh_to_increase_stability

Credit:

Discovered by tal zeltzer.
Received on Nov 02 2004