The Shellcoder's Handbook
Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes
Chapter One
Before You Begin
This chapter goes over the concepts you need to understand in order to make
sense of the rest of this book. Much like some of the reading required for a college
course, the material covered here is introductory and hopefully already
known to you. This chapter is by no means an attempt to cover everything you
need to know; rather, it should serve as jumping off point to the other chapters.
You should read through this chapter as a refresher. If you find concepts that
are foreign to you, we suggest that you mark these down as areas on which
you need to do more research. Take the time to learn about these concepts
before venturing to later chapters.
You will find many of the sample code and code fragments in this
book on The Shellcoder's Handbook Web site (/go
/shellcodershandbook); you can copy and paste these samples into your
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