Vulnerability & Exploit Case Studies.

Question

I understand the general idea of how vulnerabilities are exploited. Buffer overflows and stuff like that, but I guess I don't REALLY get it.

Are there useful sources of information that explain this area well? Maybe case studies about how particular vulnerabilities were exploited?

Even more interesting would be how projects you have worked on suffered from these kinds of issues.

I'm not trying to learn about currently existing vulnerabilities that I could exploit. I'm trying to get a feel for how this area could have an impact on any projects I may work on.

Answer 1

destroy.net has some good papers on writing buffer overflows.

iss.net has articles on different examples of exploits, mainly explaining how to secure your system.