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Protostar is a virtual machine from Exploit Exercises that goes through basic memory corruption issues. This blog post is a continuation from my previous writeups on the stack exploitation and format string exploitation stages of Protostar and will deal with the heap exploitation…

Protostar is a virtual machine from Exploit Exercises that goes through basic memory corruption issues. This blog post is a continuation from my previous writeup on the stack exploitation stages of Protostar and will deal with the format string exercises. scut's Exploiting Format…

Protostar is a virtual machine from Exploit Exercises that goes through basic memory corruption issues. It is a step up from Nebula, another virtual machine from Exploit Exercises that I have written about previously. Quoting from the website, Protostar introduces the following …

A malformed ORC file can trigger an endlessly recursive function call in the C++ parser which results in a segmentation fault. The impact of this bug is most likely denial-of-service against software that uses the C++ ORC file parser but may lead to possible code execution. In ad…

A malicious pickle file can be used to trigger remote code execution in Calibre E-book Manager. Affected Versions This vulnerability affects all operating systems Calibre supports and is present in the latest version (3.18) of the application. Description Calibre E-book Manag…