Exploitation Crash Course

Presenter: Scott Hand

Date: 15 Sept 2012

Description: This presentation goes over basic exploitation techniques. Topics include:

  • Introduction to x86 paradigms used exploited by these techniques
  • Stack overflows including the classic stack smashing attack
  • Ret2libc
  • Format string exploits
  • Heap overflows and metadata corruption attacks

The presentation makes use of the Protostar VM at Exploit Exercises.

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