Monday 

Room 2 

09:00 - 17:00 

(UTC+01

2 Days

(In)Secure C++: Sec Edition

Training aimed at providing an introduction to finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in C and C++ applications.

Security
C++

SECURE CODING PRACTICES IN C++

The training will provide its students with:

  • knowledge on how to use tools to find vulnerabilities in native applications
  • give a hands-on experience in some exploitation techniques

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

  • Chat - Slack: Will be setup a week in advance to facilitate resolving of any technical issue
  • Exercises - Cloud VMs and a Cyber Dojo cloud instance: guarantees same environment

This training is explicitly targeted at security professionals with some programming experience in C or C++.

GOALS OF THE TRAINING

  • Demystify exploitation, show that exploitation is a mindset, not a set of techniques
  • Demonstrate the motivation for mitigations in the platforms, languages and tools
  • Show that C++ and C are not easy to reason about
  • Teach the students to recognize constructs that have a higher risk of having vulnerabilities
  • Teach the students which tools can be used to find bugs

TWO-DAY TRAINING

DAY 1 - FINDING VULNERABILITIES USING FUZZING

  • Meta: Training
  • Theory: Introduction and Specs
  • Mitigations: Tooling
  • Exploitable: UB and Compiler Optimizations
  • Theory: Address Sanitizer
  • Exploit: Heartbleed
  • Theory: Fuzzing (AFL and libFuzzer)
  • Theory: Debugging in gdb

DAY 2 - EXPLOITATION AND WRITING SHELLCODE

  • Exploit: Format Strings Vulnerabilities
  • Exploit: Stack Buffer Overflow
  • Exploit: Shellcode 1
  • Exploit: Shellcode 2
  • Exploit: Return Oriented Programming (ROP)
  • Discussion: Conclusion

Patricia Aas

Patricia Aas is an international speaker and has spoken at CppCon, ACCU, C++OnSea, NDC Security, NDC Oslo and many other conferences on subjects ranging from Sandboxing in Chromium to Vulnerabilities in C++. She has taught a range of subjects in Computer Science at the University of Oslo.

Patricia has a masters degree in Computer Science and 13 years professional experience as a programmer, most of that time programming in C++. During that time she has worked in codebases with a high focus on security: two browsers (Opera and Vivaldi) and embedded Cisco telepresence systems.