What are Stack Cookies?! Software Mitigations for Stack Buffer Overflows

This is the third video in the Foundations of Exploitation series and in this video, we'll explore stack cookies. Stack cookies are interesting as they are an early attempt to implement anti-exploitation protections through the compiler - helping to mitigate programmer introduced vulnerabilities. In this video, we'll explore the basics of the stack guard/stack cookie, how to identify them in IDA Pro, and then see them disrupt our buffer overflow in WinDbg. We'll also explore how this mitigation re-organizses the …

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