There is plenty of exploit code for buffer overflows that will allow you to run arbitrary commands exploiting a buffer overflow condition. However, most of this code works well only under the Intel x86 Linux platform. This paper will attempt to explain how you can exploit the same bugs under the Alpha Linux environment.
Credit:
This article was written by Taeho Oh and published with permission.
In our exploits section we regularly publish exploit codes for different vulnerabilities that are present in applications that are available on the Internet. Most of these exploit codes were designed to run under the Intel x86 architecture, meaning that under any other hardware setups (Alpha, MacOS, Solaris, etc) these exploit codes will fail to work.
The following text explains how to create exploit code that works under the Alpha hardware environment and runs under Linux.
