Tag Archives: Format Strings

This is another post about Protostar exploiting box. Let’s start working in the interesting levels 🙂 This is the hint for the level: And this is the code: As the level starts as the last one, I’m going to cover … Continue reading →

Hello everyone, Let’s continue working in Protostar exploit exercises 🙂 Next exercise says the following: And this is the code for this level 2: This time, the input is received in a different way: Let’s start as the past levels. … Continue reading →

Let’s continue working in ProtoStar exploiting exercises. Let’s see how to solve the Format String level 1. As always, first let’s read the level description. Exercise: This level shows how format strings can be used to modify arbitrary memory locations. … Continue reading →

Hello everyone! In this blog post I will cover the solution for the Exploiting exercise named ProtoStar that is related to Format String vulnerabilities. Let’s see the first level: Exercise 0: This level introduces format strings, and how attacker supplied … Continue reading →

Format strings are the result of facilities for handling functions with variable arguments in the C programming language. Because it’s really C what makes format strings bugs possible, they affect every OS that has a C compiler. What is a … Continue reading →