Definitions
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- noun computing A small piece of
code , used as thepayload of avirus or othermalware , thatlaunches ashell so that theattacker can control thecompromised computer.
Etymologies
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Examples
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While Rutkowska and Wojtczuk's proof of concept code is harmless, it's meant to illustrate the potential for danger if an attacker gets control of SMRAM and uploads special executable code, called shellcode, into the memory.
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Not only can this increase the address space available, it can improve security, by making it harder for buffer overflows to inject shellcode.
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Christmas, we received a new sample sha1: cc47a73118c51b0d32fd88d48863afb1af7b2578 that reliably exploits this vulnerability and is able to execute malicious shellcode which downloads other malware.
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ForumCMS version 08.06.2010 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability. delall-shellcode. txt
Hack In The Box 2010
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010-126 - Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in mozilla-thunderbird. dellallpoly-shellcode. txt
Hack In The Box 2010
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010-126 - Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in mozilla-thunderbird. dellallpoly-shellcode. txt
Hack In The Box 2010
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ForumCMS version 08.06.2010 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability. delall-shellcode. txt
Hack In The Box 2010
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ForumCMS version 08.06.2010 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability. delall-shellcode. txt
Hack In The Box 2010
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010-126 - Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in mozilla-thunderbird. dellallpoly-shellcode. txt
Hack In The Box 2010
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ForumCMS version 08.06.2010 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability. delall-shellcode. txt
Hack In The Box 2010
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