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Exploit education stack-five: trouble opening shell
Im trying the phoenix vm, challenge stack-five on exploit.education (http://exploit.education/phoenix/stack-five/). I run onto a problem while exploiting a stack overflow. The challenge is run execve('...
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What is the maximum payload injection size
I have been conducting some minor research into the various forms of exploitation, such as buffer overflows and similar. Most tutorials seem to focus on executing shellcode, that is code which ...
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Why Does Only 1 Of These 2 Almost-identical Payloads Give Me A Shell?
I wrote a vulnerable test program to practice buffer overflows; however, I was having trouble getting it to work. Finally, after slightly modifying the return address, I was able to gain a shell, but ...
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Hard-wired vs relative addresses in shellcode
This question is primarily in the context of arbitrary command execution in a buffer (e.g. stack) overflow. I read somewhere recently that hard-wired (absolute) addresses are not good for shellcode e....
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