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GMM

http://www.xmailserver.org/gmm.html
The Guarded Memory Move tool is useful for studying buffer overflows and catching them together with a "good" stack image. Once a stack overflow has been exploited, the back trace is already gone, as is information about parameters and local variables that are very important in understanding how the attacker is working out the exploit. The GMM library uses dynamic function call interception to catch the most common functions that attackers use to exploit stack buffers. It uses the LD_PRELOAD capability and offers two services: first, it avoids buffer overflow to allow the attacker to execute shell-code on your machine. Second, where an exploit is detected, it saves the stack content and triggers a segmentation fault. The resulting core dump has the necessary information to debug the exploit and fix the software.

Documentation

User reference in PDF from http://www.xmailserver.org/gmm.pdf

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released on 27 January 2004

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Licensing

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GPLv2orlater Janet Casey 2453031.527 January 2004


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Contact(s)Role
"Email davidel@xmailserver.org" Davide Libenzi Maintainer

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Software prerequisites

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Required to use glibc
Required to build gcc


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This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 2 February 2004.



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