Conclusion

While certain characteristics of the SPARC architecture, such as register windows , may seem foreign to those only familiar with the x86, once the basic concepts are understood , many similarities in exploit techniques can be found. Exploitation of the off-by-one bug classes is made more difficult by the big-endian nature of the architecture. However, virtually everything else is exploitable in a manner similar to other operating systems and architectures. Solaris on SPARC presents some unique exploitation challenges, but is also a very well-defined architecture and operating system, and many of the exploit techniques described here can be expected to work in most situations. Complexities in the heap implementation offer exploitation possibilities not yet thought of. Further exploitation techniques not mentioned in this chapter definitely exist, and you have plenty of opportunity to find them.