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An exploit is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or sequence of commands that takes advantage of a bug, glitch, or vulnerability in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur.

Overwrite return address simple format string exploit

Yes, quite a few similar questions exist already (5037601, 19166698, 4855162, 14505995, 5052648, 13409508, 7745146, 7459630; sorry, not enough rep for more than 2 links), and yes, there are …

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Metasploit generic/custom payload with a multipayload

I've been playing around with the newer MSF4 (Framework: 4.1.0-release.13988, Console : 4.1.0-release.13581) multipayload support using msfvenom and the custom/generic …

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exploiting Buffer Overflow using gets() in a simple C program

I am new to Buffer Overflow exploits and I started with a simple C program. Code #include <stdio.h&…

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Why does this Python code destroy my computer?

It claims to be MS12-020 exploit, and I tested this on my machine. Apparently, it seems to destroy the …

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Writing Secure C and Secure C Idioms

"The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe." - H. L. Menken I …

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