ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 1

15 Points  0x0

... or how to read through the stack

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Lu33Y,  

Level  Difficulty

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Pseudo Challenge Lang Date
yansoua   ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 1 19 September 2021 at 01:56
ELFamoso   ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 1 18 September 2021 at 23:04
Ultimator-   ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 1 16 September 2021 at 23:44
0x29A   ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 1 16 September 2021 at 20:06
Xided   ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 1 14 September 2021 at 19:57
xThaz   ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 1 13 September 2021 at 22:17
Lwo   ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 1 13 September 2021 at 22:15
egyde   ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 1 13 September 2021 at 16:45
Telbar   ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 1 13 September 2021 at 15:30
yuantse   ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 1 12 September 2021 at 17:59

 82 Challenges

Results Name Validations Number of points  Explanation for the scores Difficulty  Difficulty Author Note  Notation Solution Date
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow basic 1 8% 16877 5 Lyes 11 25 March 2015
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow basic 2 6% 12040 10 Lyes 10 10 April 2015
pas_valide PE32 - Stack buffer overflow basic 1% 1056 10 Ech0 8 3 December 2019
pas_valide ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 1 4% 7738 15 Lu33Y 6 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x64 - Stack buffer overflow - basic 3% 5908 20 Arod 7 31 May 2015
pas_valide ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 2 2% 3877 20 Lyes 5 8 April 2015
pas_valide ELF x86 - Race condition 3% 5176 20 Lu33Y 10 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF ARM - Stack buffer overflow - basic 1% 1138 25 pickle 7 9 March 2017
pas_valide ELF MIPS - Stack buffer overflow - No NX 1% 380 25 franb 2 28 September 2018
pas_valide ELF x64 - Double free 1% 236 25 Esad 1 23 March 2021
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow basic 3 2% 3868 25 Lyes 4 10 April 2015
pas_valide ELF x86 - Use After Free - basic 1% 1196 25 Esad 3 26 May 2019
pas_valide ELF ARM - Stack Spraying 1% 211 30 pickle 4 2 April 2017
pas_valide ELF x64 - Stack buffer overflow - PIE 1% 291 30 HomardBoy 2 26 March 2021
pas_valide ELF x86 - BSS buffer overflow 2% 3592 30 Lu33Y 7 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow basic 4 2% 2400 30 Lu33Y 5 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow basic 6 1% 2293 30 TiWim 5 10 March 2016
pas_valide ELF x86 - Format String Bug Basic 3 1% 1027 35 Lyes 2 27 May 2015
pas_valide PE32 - Advanced stack buffer overflow 1% 160 35 Ech0 4 3 December 2019
pas_valide ELF ARM - Basic ROP 1% 589 40 pickle 5 11 March 2017
pas_valide ELF MIPS - Basic ROP 1% 114 40 dagger 1 7 October 2018
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow - C++ vtables 1% 724 40 sebbb 2 20 July 2015
pas_valide PE32+ Format string bug 1% 71 45 Ech0 1 3 December 2019
pas_valide ELF x64 - Logic bug 1% 164 50 sbrk 3 8 July 2017
pas_valide ELF x86 - Bug Hunting - Several issues 1% 87 50 sbrk 2 19 January 2018
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer and integer overflow 1% 1699 50 Lu33Y 3 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow - ret2dl_resolve 1% 204 50 kikko 2 28 February 2019
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow basic 5 1% 1561 50 Lu33Y 1 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x64 - Stack buffer overflow - advanced 1% 1063 55 Arod 4 5 June 2015
pas_valide ELF MIPS - Format String Glitch 1% 51 60 pickle 1 21 October 2018
pas_valide ELF x64 - Heap Filling 1% 15 60 voydstack 0 27 May 2021
pas_valide ELF x86 - Information leakage with Stack Smashing Protector 1% 755 60 Arod 2 20 May 2015
pas_valide ELF x64 - File Structure Hacking 1% 17 65 nobodyisnobody 0 27 May 2021
pas_valide ELF ARM - Race condition 1% 119 70 pickle 1 3 June 2017
pas_valide ELF x64 - Browser exploit - Intro 1% 69 70 pickle 1 2 November 2018
pas_valide ELF x64 - ret2dl_init 1% 15 70 kikko 0 27 May 2021
pas_valide ELF x86 - Out of bounds attack - French Paradox 1% 96 70 sbrk 3 17 September 2017
pas_valide ELF x86 - Remote BSS buffer overflow 1% 705 75 Tosh 1 6 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Remote Format String bug 1% 881 75 Tosh 2 6 February 2012
pas_valide PE32+ Basic ROP 1% 41 75 Ech0 0 6 December 2019
pas_valide ELF x64 - Remote heap buffer overflow - fastbin 1% 240 80 franb 1 5 February 2017
pas_valide ELF x86 - Blind remote format string bug 1% 268 80 Lyes 2 8 June 2015
pas_valide LinKern ARM - vulnerable syscall 1% 122 85 pickle 0 22 March 2017
pas_valide LinKern x86 - Buffer overflow basic 1 1% 409 85 franb 3 16 February 2016
pas_valide LinKern x86 - Null pointer dereference 1% 402 90 franb 0 16 February 2016
pas_valide LinKern x64 - Race condition 1% 258 95 franb 1 16 February 2016
pas_valide ELF ARM - Alphanumeric shellcode 1% 39 100 pickle 2 16 March 2017
pas_valide ELF MIPS - URLEncoded Format String bug 1% 22 100 pickle 0 7 October 2018
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 1 1% 647 100 sm0k 3 11 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 2 1% 518 100 sm0k 3 11 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 3 1% 316 100 sm0k 1 11 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 4 1% 358 100 sm0k 2 11 February 2012
pas_valide LinKern MIPSel - Vulnerable ioctl 1% 46 100 pickle 0 23 October 2018
pas_valide LinKern x64 - reentrant code 1% 139 100 franb 2 1 March 2016
pas_valide ELF ARM - Heap format string bug 1% 69 105 franb 1 3 June 2017
pas_valide ELF x64 - Sigreturn Oriented Programming 1% 223 105 Arod 4 25 June 2015
pas_valide ELF ARM - Format String bug 1% 79 110 pickle 2 14 March 2017
pas_valide ELF ARM - Use After Free 1% 85 110 pickle 0 22 March 2017
pas_valide ELF x64 - FILE structure hijacking 1% 17 110 voydstack 3 27 May 2021
pas_valide ELF x64 - Heap feng-shui 1% 60 110 laxa 2 4 August 2017
pas_valide ELF x64 - Off-by-one bug 1% 120 110 NeedToLearn 2 19 May 2016
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 5 1% 270 110 sm0k 1 11 February 2012
pas_valide LinKern ARM - Stack Overflow 1% 53 110 pickle 0 24 July 2017
pas_valide LinKern x86 - basic ROP 1% 203 110 franb 2 6 May 2016
pas_valide ELF ARM - Heap Off-by-One 1% 51 115 pickle 1 11 March 2017
pas_valide ELF x64 - Remote Heap buffer overflow 1 1% 147 115 Tosh 3 26 June 2015
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 6 1% 254 115 sm0k 3 11 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 7 1% 217 115 Tosh 3 21 January 2013
pas_valide ELF x86 - Remote stack buffer overflow - Hardened 1% 138 115 franb 1 17 August 2016
pas_valide LinKern x64 - RowHammer 1% 57 115 pickle 1 17 March 2019
pas_valide LinKern x64 - SLUB off-by-one 1% 43 115 Tosh 2 9 May 2019
pas_valide ELF ARM - Heap buffer overflow - Wilderness 1% 33 120 pickle 1 25 March 2017
pas_valide ELF ARM - Heap Overflow 1% 39 120 pickle 1 2 April 2017
pas_valide ELF x64 - Seccomp Whitelist 1% 50 120 pickle 0 3 June 2017
pas_valide ELF x86 - Blind ROP 1% 110 120 franb 0 9 October 2016
pas_valide Linkern x64 - Memory exploration 1% 95 120 franb 1 27 July 2016
pas_valide WinKern x64 - Advanced stack buffer overflow - ROP 1% 20 120 __syscall 1 27 January 2020
pas_valide WinKern x64 - Use After Free 1% 16 120 __syscall 0 27 January 2020
pas_valide ELF x64 - Remote Heap buffer overflow 2 1% 111 130 Tosh 1 1 July 2015
pas_valide ELF x64 - Advanced Heap Exploitation - Heap Leakless & Fortified 0% 0 135 nobodyisnobody 0 27 May 2021
pas_valide ELF x64 - Blind ROP 1% 80 135 franb 1 10 March 2018
pas_valide ELF x64 - Browser exploit - BitString 1% 30 135 pickle 0 15 December 2018