halfx / software

A course module on Software Security

Module: Software Security (software)

This is a learning module for Software Security.

The module is part of the Open Security Education project and the maintainer is Daniel Bosk. The latest release can be found under releases. You can safely link directly to the PDFs found there.

File Structure and Building

To build the PDFs, after cloning the repository you must clone its required submodules:

$ git submodule update --recursive --init

Then you can go into the directory of the desired document and run make. The source files are structured as follows:

• overview contains slides giving an overview of the area.
• stacksmahlab is a submodule containing lab instructions for experimenting with stack smashing.
• malwarelab is a submodule containing lab instructions for experimenting with self-replicating and reproducible binaries.

In each directory the files are structured as follows:

• <name>.tex contains the main content.
• aims.tex is an itemized list of the intended learning outcomes, as such it can be included in another document summarizing the list of intended learning outcomes.
• abstract.tex is an abstract of the lecture, assignment, or similar, and covers the required reading instructions, thus you can include these in a study guide containing all reading instructions for the course.
• <name>.bib contains the bibliography entries, thus this file can be included along with the reading instructions.

To contribute, please fork the repository, make your changes, commit them and then create a pull request in the original repository.