| Abstract: | In the computer security arena, every now and then, a vulnerability comes along causing a significant impact. The impact of a vulnerability is based on factors such as popularity of the vulnerable platform and the ease of exploitation of the vulnerability. Lots of research gets done on a vulnerability, beginning from its origin to the various permutations and combinations of exploit code that come out subsequently. In recent years, we have seen self-propagating exploit code (in other words, worms) becoming quite popular. |
