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Cody Pierce

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Security Researcher


Cody Pierce, aka intropy, is a researcher within TippingPoint's security research group. His responsibilities include reverse engineering and developing auditing and reverse engineering automation tools. Cody has discovered critical vulnerabilities affecting a wide range of enterprise vendors, including: Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, America Online, Computer Associates and others. Prior to TippingPoint, Cody was a security researcher for Citadel Security Software responsible for vulnerability analysis, research, and remediation. Though he spends much of his personal and free time in the world of a reverse engineer, Cody's true passion is music.

Published Advisories:
  • TPTI-08-03: Microsoft Excel Rich Text Memory Corruption Vulnerability
  • TPTI-08-02: Cisco Call Manager CTLProvider Heap Overflow Vulnerability
  • TPTI-08-01: Apple Quicktime Image File IDSC Atom Memory Corruption Vulnerability
  • TPTI-07-20: Apple Quicktime Movie Stack Overflow Vulnerability
  • TPTI-07-14: HP OpenView Multiple Product Shared Trace Service Stack Overflow Vulnerabilities
  • TPTI-07-13: Borland Interbase ibserver.exe Create-Request Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
  • TPTI-07-11: Multiple Vendor SQL fbserver 'connect' Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
  • TPTI-07-10: Centennial Software XFERWAN Stack Overflow Vulnerability
  • TPTI-07-03: America Online SuperBuddy ActiveX Control Code Execution Vulnerability
  • TPTI-06-08: Microsoft Internet Help COM Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability
  • TPTI-06-09: Microsoft DirectAnimation COM Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability
  • TPTI-06-03: eIQnetworks ESA Syslog Server Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
  • TPTI-06-04: eIQnetworks ESA Topology Server Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
    • Upcoming Advisories:
  • Microsoft (185 days since report)
    • Appearances:
  • RPC Auditing Tools and Techniques
    2007-11-22 DeepSec In-Depth Security Conference
  • PyEmu: A Multi-Purpose Scriptable x86 Emulator
    2007-08-02 BlackHat US
    • Blog Entries
  • Owning Kraken Zombies, a Detailed Dissection
    created 2008-04-28 (2 comments, 7247 views)
  • MSRPC NDR Types Technical Overview
    created 2007-11-24 (0 comments, 2023 views)
  • Step by Step of How TPTI-07-013 was Discovered
    created 2007-07-24 (5 comments, 5704 views)