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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retleave App - Système  ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 1 fr 9 June 2026 at 10:44

challenges 93 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 7% 27107 5 Lyes 11 25 March 2015
pas_valide ELF x64 - Basic heap overflow 1% 3286 10 sourcePerrier 1 13 February 2023
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow basic 2 5% 18452 10 Lyes 10 10 April 2015
pas_valide PE32 - Stack buffer overflow basic 1% 3021 10 Ech0 8 3 December 2019
pas_valide ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 1 3% 11500 15 Lu33Y 7 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x64 - Stack buffer overflow - basic 3% 8966 20 Arod 7 31 May 2015
pas_valide ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 2 2% 5928 20 Lyes 5 8 April 2015
pas_valide ELF x86 - Race condition 2% 7391 20 Lu33Y 10 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF ARM - Stack buffer overflow - basic 1% 1741 25 pickle 7 9 March 2017
pas_valide ELF MIPS - Stack buffer overflow - No NX 1% 713 25 franb 2 28 September 2018
pas_valide ELF x64 - Double free 1% 1561 25 Esad 2 23 March 2021
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow basic 3 2% 6022 25 Lyes 5 10 April 2015
pas_valide ELF x86 - Use After Free - basic 1% 2498 25 Esad 3 26 May 2019
pas_valide ELF ARM - Stack Spraying 1% 369 30 pickle 4 2 April 2017
pas_valide ELF x64 - Stack buffer overflow - PIE 1% 1614 30 HomardBoy 3 26 March 2021
pas_valide ELF x86 - BSS buffer overflow 2% 4764 30 Lu33Y 7 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow basic 4 1% 3386 30 Lu33Y 5 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow basic 6 1% 3640 30 TiWim 5 10 March 2016
pas_valide ELF x86 - Format String Bug Basic 3 1% 1636 35 Lyes 2 27 May 2015
pas_valide PE32 - Advanced stack buffer overflow 1% 320 35 Ech0 4 3 December 2019
pas_valide ELF ARM - Basic ROP 1% 1009 40 pickle 6 11 March 2017
pas_valide ELF MIPS - Basic ROP 1% 248 40 dagger 1 7 October 2018
pas_valide ELF RISC-V - Intro - let’s do the ROP 1% 136 40 nobodyisnobody 1 13 February 2023
pas_valide ELF x64 - Stack buffer overflow - Stack pivot 1% 308 40 spikeroot 0 11 July 2024
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow - C++ vtables 1% 1149 40 sebbb 2 20 July 2015
pas_valide PE32+ Format string bug 1% 146 45 Ech0 2 3 December 2019
pas_valide ELF x64 - Logic bug 1% 325 50 sbrk 3 8 July 2017
pas_valide ELF x86 - Bug Hunting - Several issues 1% 190 50 sbrk 3 19 January 2018
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer and integer overflow 1% 2271 50 Lu33Y 4 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow - ret2dl_resolve 1% 550 50 kikko 4 28 February 2019
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow basic 5 1% 2141 50 Lu33Y 1 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x64 - Stack buffer overflow - advanced 1% 1748 55 Arod 4 5 June 2015
pas_valide ELF MIPS - Format String Glitch 1% 127 60 pickle , martin 1 21 October 2018
pas_valide ELF x64 - Heap Filling 1% 182 60 voydstack 0 27 May 2021
pas_valide ELF x86 - Information leakage with Stack Smashing Protector 1% 1082 60 Arod 3 20 May 2015
pas_valide ELF x64 - File Structure Hacking 1% 164 65 nobodyisnobody 0 27 May 2021
pas_valide ELF ARM - Race condition 1% 214 70 pickle 1 3 June 2017
pas_valide ELF x64 - Browser exploit - Intro 1% 133 70 pickle 1 2 November 2018
pas_valide ELF x64 - Buggy VM 1% 116 70 NonStandardModel 0 10 June 2022
pas_valide ELF x64 - Heap Safe-Linking Bypass 1% 152 70 nobodyisnobody 1 22 October 2021
pas_valide ELF x64 - ret2dl_init 1% 105 70 kikko 0 27 May 2021
pas_valide ELF x86 - Out of bounds attack - French Paradox 1% 179 70 sbrk 3 17 September 2017
pas_valide ELF x86 - Remote BSS buffer overflow 1% 806 75 Tosh 1 6 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Remote Format String bug 1% 1071 75 Tosh 2 6 February 2012
pas_valide PE32+ Basic ROP 1% 95 75 Ech0 0 6 December 2019
pas_valide ELF x64 - Remote heap buffer overflow - tcache 1% 362 80 franb 1 5 February 2017
pas_valide ELF x86 - Blind remote format string bug 1% 375 80 Lyes 2 8 June 2015
pas_valide LinKern ARM - vulnerable syscall 1% 253 85 pickle 1 22 March 2017
pas_valide LinKern x86 - Buffer overflow basic 1 1% 664 85 franb 3 16 February 2016
pas_valide ELF x64 - Sigreturn Oriented Programming 1% 356 90 Arod 4 25 June 2015
pas_valide LinKern x86 - Null pointer dereference 1% 623 90 franb 1 16 February 2016
pas_valide ELF x64 - Syscall chaining 1% 59 95 Njörd 1 11 July 2024
pas_valide LinKern x64 - Race condition 1% 439 95 franb 3 16 February 2016
pas_valide ELF ARM - Alphanumeric shellcode 1% 75 100 pickle 2 16 March 2017
pas_valide ELF MIPS - URLEncoded Format String bug 1% 61 100 pickle 0 7 October 2018
pas_valide ELF x64 - Blind SROP 1% 51 100 s1m 0 28 December 2023
pas_valide ELF x64 - Heap Hop 1% 204 100 nobodyisnobody 0 11 July 2024
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 1 1% 939 100 sm0k 3 11 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 2 1% 748 100 sm0k 3 11 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 3 1% 440 100 sm0k 1 11 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 4 1% 525 100 sm0k 2 11 February 2012
pas_valide LinKern MIPSel - Vulnerable ioctl 1% 120 100 pickle 0 23 October 2018
pas_valide LinKern x64 - reentrant code 1% 252 100 franb 2 1 March 2016
pas_valide ELF ARM - Heap format string bug 1% 121 105 franb 1 3 June 2017
pas_valide ELF ARM - Format String bug 1% 137 110 pickle 2 14 March 2017
pas_valide ELF ARM - Use After Free 1% 148 110 pickle 0 22 March 2017
pas_valide ELF x64 - FILE structure hijacking 1% 96 110 voydstack 3 27 May 2021
pas_valide ELF x64 - Heap feng-shui 1% 134 110 laxa 2 4 August 2017
pas_valide ELF x64 - Off-by-one bug 1% 186 110 NeedToLearn 3 19 May 2016
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 5 1% 398 110 sm0k 1 11 February 2012
pas_valide LinKern ARM - Stack Overflow 1% 108 110 pickle 0 24 July 2017
pas_valide LinKern x86 - basic ROP 1% 374 110 franb 3 6 May 2016
pas_valide ELF ARM - Heap Off-by-One 1% 107 115 pickle 1 11 March 2017
pas_valide ELF x64 - Advanced blind format string exploitation 1% 39 115 nobodyisnobody 0 11 July 2024
pas_valide ELF x64 - Remote Heap buffer overflow 1 1% 227 115 Tosh 3 26 June 2015
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 6 1% 378 115 sm0k 3 11 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 7 1% 319 115 Tosh 3 21 January 2013
pas_valide ELF x86 - Remote stack buffer overflow - Hardened 1% 230 115 franb 1 17 August 2016
pas_valide LinKern x64 - RowHammer 1% 150 115 pickle 2 17 March 2019
pas_valide LinKern x64 - SLUB off-by-one 1% 133 115 Tosh 2 9 May 2019
pas_valide ELF ARM - Heap buffer overflow - Wilderness 1% 66 120 pickle 1 25 March 2017
pas_valide ELF ARM - Heap Overflow 1% 88 120 pickle 1 2 April 2017
pas_valide ELF ARM64 - Heap Underflow 1% 54 120 nobodyisnobody 0 13 February 2023
pas_valide ELF x64 - Seccomp Whitelist 1% 127 120 pickle 0 3 June 2017
pas_valide ELF x86 - Blind ROP 1% 176 120 franb 0 9 October 2016
pas_valide LinKern x64 - Memory exploration 1% 201 120 franb 2 27 July 2016
pas_valide WinKern x64 - Advanced stack buffer overflow - ROP 1% 64 120 __syscall , Synacktiv 1 27 January 2020
pas_valide WinKern x64 - Use After Free 1% 48 120 __syscall , Synacktiv 0 27 January 2020
pas_valide ELF x64 - Remote Heap buffer overflow 2 1% 180 130 Tosh , Fritz 1 1 July 2015
pas_valide ELF x64 - Advanced Heap Exploitation - Heap Leakless & Fortified 1% 84 135 nobodyisnobody 1 27 May 2021
pas_valide ELF x64 - Blind ROP 1% 142 135 franb 1 10 March 2018
pas_valide ELF x64 - Browser exploit - BitString 1% 49 135 pickle 0 15 December 2018
pas_valide ELF ARM64 - Multithreading 1% 52 140 franb 0 13 February 2023