mem-attacks-example

Examples of Binary Exploitations

• Buffer Overflow
• Format String
• Return-Oriented Programming

Not intended to be a teaching guide.

Pre-requisites:

The basic techniques of binary exploitation, namely overwriting variables/ return addresses.

This repository was tested on Ubuntu 16.04

General Tips:

• Install peda, which is a much more bazinga-ed version of gdb
• For format string attack, read documentation on printf calling conventions and how arguments are passed to functions for your machine (registers or stack).