A Survey of Vulnerability and Attacks

• Buffer Overflows

  • Failure to bound a read buffer in a program may allow exploitation of the system by writing into the system memory allocated by the read buffer.

• Scanning and Sniffing

  • Network scanning may allow an attacker to identify the OS running on the system as well as daemons available.

• Spoofing

  • A user pretending to be another user, a host another host, an IP address another IP address, etc...