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Stack Smashing at Home

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There are various wargaming sites such as SmashTheStack, OverTheWire, and IO Wargame that provide a platform for users to legally exploit real world software vulnerabilities. Source code is provided with a few of the challenges, which you can copy to a local research machine instead of working remotely. Keep in mind that the sites hosting … Read more

ELF Binary Disassembly

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Let us take a tour through a disassembly dump of an ELF binary and see if we can reverse engineer it. The following output is a result of: mech@dev:$ gcc -o distut distut.c mech@dev:$ objdump -d distut|grep main The reader is assumed to be familiar with the above output. I have removed the memory addresses … Read more