A Bug Hunter's Diary

Seemingly simple bugs can have drastic consequences, allowing attackers to compromise systems, escalate local privileges, and otherwise wreak havoc on a system.

A Bug Hunter's Diary follows security expert Tobias Klein as he tracks down and exploits bugs in some of the world's most popular software, like Apple's iOS, the VLC media player, web browsers, and even the Mac OS X kernel. In this one-of-a-kind account, you'll see how the developers responsible for these flaws patched the bugs - or failed to respond to them at all.

Along the way you'll learn how to:

- Use field-tested techniques to find bugs, like identifying and tracing user input data and reserve engineering

- Exploit vulnerabilities like NULL pointer dereferences, buffer overflows, and type conversion flaws

- Develop proof-of-concept code that verifies the security flaw

A Bug Hunter's Diary is packed with real-world examples of vulnerable code and the custom programs used to find and test bugs. Whether you're hunting bugs for fun, for profit, or to make the world a safer place, you'll learn valuable new skills by looking over the shoulder of a professional bug hunter in action.