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From Ryan Russell I would like to dedicate my work to my wonderful wife and children, without whom none of this would be worth doing. I love you Sara, Happy Valentine’s Day! I would also like to thank Brian Martin for his assistance in tech editing, and of course the authors who took the time to write the book. Special thanks go out to those authors who worked on the first edition, before anyone had any idea that it would do well or how it would come out. 194_HPYN2e_FM.qxd 2/15/02 2:36 PM Page v Contributors Dan “Effugas” Kaminsky (CISSP) worked for two years at Cisco Systems designing security infrastructure for large-scale network monitoring systems. Dan has delivered presentations at several major industry conferences including Linuxworld, DEF CON, and the Black Hat Briefings, and he also contributes actively to OpenSSH, one of the more significant cryptographic systems in use today. Dan founded the cross-disciplinary DoxPara Research (www.doxpara.com) in 1997, seeking to integrate psychological and techno- logical theory to create more effective systems for non-ideal but very real environments in the field. He is based in Silicon Valley, presently studying Operation and Management of Information Systems at Santa Clara University in California. Rain Forest Puppy is a security research and development consultant for a Midwest-based security consulting company. RFP has been working in R&D and coding in various languages for over seven years.While the Web is his primary hobby focus point, he has also played in other realms including: Linux kernel security patches, lockdown of various Windows and UNIX operating systems, and the development of honeypots and other attack alert tools. In the past he’s reported on SQL tampering and common CGI prob- lems, and has contributed security tools (like whisker) to the information security community. Ken Pfeil is the Security Program Manager for Identix Inc.’s information technology security division. Ken started with Identix following his position as Chief Information Security Officer for Miradiant Global Network, Inc. Ken has over 14 years of IT and security experience, having served with such companies as Microsoft, Dell, and Merrill Lynch.While employed at Microsoft, Ken co-authored Microsoft’s “Best Practices for Enterprise Security” whitepaper series, and is the founder of “The NT Toolbox”Web site. He currently covers new security risks and vulnerabilities for Windows and .Net magazines’ Security Administrator publication, and was the resident expert for multiplatform integration and security issues for “The Windows 2000 Experts Journal.” vi 194_HPYN2e_FM.qxd 2/15/02 2:36 PM Page vi vii Joseph “Kingpin” Grand is a Boston-based electrical engineer and product designer. His pioneering hardware and security research has been published in various academic and industry journals. He has lectured widely on security product design and analysis, portable devices, and digital foren- sics. In addition to testifying before the United States Senate Governmental Affairs, Joseph has presented his research at the United States Naval Post Graduate School Center for INFOSEC Studies and Research, the USENIX Security Symposium, and the IBM Thomas J.Watson Research Center. Joseph was a long-time researcher with the L0pht hacker think tank. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Engineering from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. K2 is a security engineer. He works on a variety of systems ranging from UNIX to all other operating systems. He has spent a lot of time working through security issues wherever they exist; core kernels, networking ser- vices, or binary protections. K2 is a member of w00w00 and is a con- tributing member of The Honeynet Project. He would like to thank Anya for all her help and support throughout the year. David M. Ahmad is Threat Analysis Manager for SecurityFocus and mod- erator of the Bugtraq mailing list. SecurityFocus is the leading provider of security intelligence services. David has played a key role in the develop- ment of the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus.The focus of this duty has been the analysis of software vulnerabilities and the methods used to exploit them. David became the moderator of Bugtraq, the well-known computer security mailing list in 2001. He currently resides in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with his family. F. William Lynch (SCSA, CCNA, LPI-I, MCSE, MCP, Linux+,A+) is co- author for Hack Proofing Sun Solaris 8 (ISBN: 1-928994-44-X), also pub- lished by Syngress Publishing. He is an independent security and systems administration consultant and specializes in firewalls, virtual private net- works, security auditing, documentation, and systems performance analysis. William has served as a consultant to multinational corporations and the Federal government including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia as well as various airbases of the USAF. He is also the founder and director of the MRTG-PME project, 194_HPYN2e_FM.qxd 2/15/02 2:36 PM Page vii viii which uses the MRTG engine to track systems performance of various UNIX-like operating systems.William holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio and a Masters of Business Administration from Regis University in Denver, Colorado. Hal Flynn is a Threat Analyst at SecurityFocus, the leading provider of Security Intelligence Services for Business. Hal functions as a Senior Analyst, performing research and analysis of vulnerabilities, malicious code, and net- work attacks. He provides the SecurityFocus team with UNIX and Network expertise. He is also the manager of the UNIX Focus Area and moderator of the Focus-Sun, Focus-Linux, Focus-BSD, and Focus- GeneralUnix mailing lists. Hal has worked the field in jobs as varied as the Senior Systems and Network Administrator of an Internet Service Provider, to contracting the United States Defense Information Systems Agency, to Enterprise-level con- sulting for Sprint. He is also a veteran of the United States Navy Hospital Corps, having served a tour with the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina as a Fleet Marine Force Corpsman. Hal is mobile, living between sunny Phoenix,Arizona and wintry Calgary,Alberta, Canada. Rooted in the South, he still calls Montgomery,Alabama home. Ryan Permeh is a developer and researcher with eEye Digital Security. He works on the Retina and SecureIIS product lines and leads the reverse engi- neering and custom exploitation efforts for eEye’s research team. Ryan was behind the initital analysis of the CodeRed worm, and has developed many proof of concept exploits provided to vendors and the security community. Ryan has experience in NT, UNIX, systems and application programming as well as large-scale secure network deployment and maintenance. Ryan currently lives and works in sunny Orange County, California. Ryan would like to offer special thanks to Riley Hassel for his assistance in providing the Linux exploitation of a sample buffer overflow. He would also like to thank the rest of the eEye team, Greg Hoglund, and Ryan Russell, for the original foundation ideas included in his chapter. Norris L. Johnson, Jr. (MCSE, MCT, CTT+,A+, Network +) is a tech- nology trainer and owner of a consulting company in the Seattle-Tacoma 194_HPYN2e_FM.qxd 2/15/02 2:36 PM Page viii ix area. His consultancies have included deployments and security planning for local firms and public agencies, as well as providing services to other local computer firms in need of problem solving and solutions for their clients. He specializes in Windows NT 4.0,Windows 2000, and Windows XP issues, providing planning, implementation, and integration services. In addition to consulting work, Norris provides technical training for clients and teaches for area community and technical colleges. He co-authored Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows XP Professional (Syngress Publishing, ISBN: 1- 92899480-6), and performed technical edits on Hack Proofing Windows 2000 Server (ISBN: 1-931836-49-3) and Windows 2000 Active Directory, Second Edition (ISBN: 1-928994-60-1). Norris holds a Bachelor’s degree from Washington State University. He is deeply appreciative of the support of his wife Cindy and three sons in helping to maintain his focus and efforts toward computer training and education. Ido Dubrawsky (CCNA, SCSA) is a Network Security Engineer and a member of Cisco’s Secure Consulting Services in Austin,Texas. He currently conducts security posture assessments for clients as well as provides technical consulting for security design reviews. His strengths include Cisco routers and switches, PIX firewall, Solaris systems, and freeware intrusion detection systems. Ido holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of USENIX and SAGE. He has written several articles covering Solaris security and network security for Sysadmin magazine as well as SecurityFocus. He lives in Austin,Texas with his family. Robert Graham has been developing sniffers since 1990, where he wrote most of the protocol decodes for the ProTools protocol-analyzer, including real-time tools for password sniffing and Telnet session spying. Robert worked for Network General between 1994 and 1998 where he rewrote all of the protocol-decodes for the Sniffer protocol-analyzer. He founded Network ICE in 1998 and created the BlackICE network-snifing intrusion detection system. He is now the chief architect at Internet Security Systems in charge of the design for the RealSecure IDS. Steve Manzuik (MCP) was most recently a Manager in Ernst & Young’s Security and Technology Solutions practice specializing in profiling services. 194_HPYN2e_FM.qxd 2/15/02 2:36 PM Page ix [...]... on the beat As the generation that will either turn security into an enabling technology, or allow it to persist as the obstacle that it is perceived as today, it is up to us to look strategically at our dilemma.We do that by understanding how current attacks work, what they take advantage of, where they came from, and where the next wave might be aimed.We create proof-of-concept tools and code to. .. insecure protocols and communications channels by passing laws that make it illegal to look at the vulnerable parts instead of addressing the protocols themselves.There even seems to be the belief in various law enforcement agencies that if a local area network is the equivalent to a local neighborhood, and the problem is that there are no locks on any of the doors to the houses, the solution is to put... (ISBN: 1-9 2899 4-3 1-8 ) Hack Proofing Sun Solaris 8 (ISBN: 1-9 2899 4-4 4-X) Hack Proofing Linux (ISBN: 1-9 2899 4-3 4-2 ) xxix 194_HPYN2e_FrmAu.qxd xxx 2/15/02 2:25 PM Page xxx Foreword v 1.5 Hack Proofing Windows 2000 Server (ISBN: 1-9 3183 6-4 9-3 ) Hack Proofing Your Wireless Network (ISBN: 1-9 2899 4-5 9-8 ) Hack Proofing ColdFusion 5.0 (ISBN: 1-9 2899 4-7 7-6 ) And there are more to come.These titles have at least one common... UUEncode Base64 Compression Summary Solutions Fast Track Frequently Asked Questions Chapter 7 Unexpected Input Understanding Why Unexpected Data Is Dangerous Almost all applications interact with the user, and thus take data from them An application can’t assume that the user is playing by the rules The application has to be wary of buffer overflows, logic alteration, and the validity of data passed to system... Harris STAT Scanner 1,200 Symantec NetRecon 600 eEye Retina 820 Other Products Exploring the Free Tools Nessus Security Administrators Integrated Network Tool (SAINT) Security Administrators Research Assistant (SARA) ShadowScan Nmap and NmapNT Whisker VLAD the Scanner Other Resources Using Automated Tools for Penetration Testing Testing with the Commercial Tools Testing the Free Tools Knowing When Tools... address the problems at hand Perhaps this would suffice in a small static environment with few users, but the Internet is far from that As companies and organizations move from the closed and self-contained model to the open and distributed form that fosters new communication and data movement, one cannot take the tactical “repair after the fact” approach Security needs to be brought in at the design stage... thinktank’ the L0pht, and is considered the nation’s leading “grey-hat hacker. ” He and the original members of the L0pht are now heading up @stake’s research labs, ensuring that the company is at the cutting edge of Internet security Mudge is a widely sought-after keynote speaker in various forums, including analysis of electronic threats to national security He has been called to testify before the Senate... as a surprise We saw this paradigm shift and so did the marketplace L0pht merged with respected luminaries in the business world to form the research and consulting company @stake .The goal of the company has been to enable organizations to start xxxiii 194_HPYN2e_fore.qxd xxxiv 2/15/02 2:23 PM Page xxxiv Foreword v 1.0 treating security in a strategic fashion as opposed to always playing the catch-up... Page x Over the last ten years Steve has been involved in IT integration, support, and security Steve is a published author on security topics, a sought after speaker and information security panelist and is the moderator of a full disclosure security mailing list,VulnWatch (www.vulnwatch.org) Steve also has acted as a Security Analyst for a world wide group of White Hat Hackers and Security Researchers,... see where the faults and stress lines are.These areas are the ones on which to spend time and effort buttressing against future attacks By thoroughly understanding the object being analyzed, it is more readily apparent how and where it can be deployed securely, and how and where it cannot.This is, after all, one of the reasons why we have War Colleges in the physical world the worst-case scenario should . UPDATE®,” are registered trademarks of Syngress Publishing, Inc. “Mission Critical™,” Hack Proofing™,” and The Only Way to Stop a Hacker is to Think Like One ” are trademarks of Syngress Publishing,. ™ 1YEAR UPGRADE BUYER PROTECTION PLAN UPDATED BESTSELLER! The Only Way to Stop a Hacker is to Think Like One David R. Mirza Ahmad Ido Dubrawsky Hal Flynn Joseph “Kingpin” Grand Robert Graham Norris. thank Anya for all her help and support throughout the year. David M. Ahmad is Threat Analysis Manager for SecurityFocus and mod- erator of the Bugtraq mailing list. SecurityFocus is the leading