PE32+ Format string bug

45 Points  0x0

Exploitation of a PE format string bug

Author

Ech0,  

Level  Difficulty

Validations

117 Challengers 1%

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Pseudo Challenge Lang Date
skav App - Système  PE32+ Format string bug fr 10 March 2025 at 12:16
suzume App - Système  PE32+ Format string bug fr 25 January 2025 at 10:21
hexwreaker App - Système  PE32+ Format string bug fr 13 January 2025 at 11:01
lolo42 App - Système  PE32+ Format string bug fr 21 December 2024 at 23:23
Abyss Watcher App - Système  PE32+ Format string bug fr 12 December 2024 at 02:43
CrypT App - Système  PE32+ Format string bug fr 4 December 2024 at 22:56
KiraLY App - Système  PE32+ Format string bug fr 4 December 2024 at 01:57
Undr App - Système  PE32+ Format string bug fr 12 November 2024 at 16:07
V0odOo App - Système  PE32+ Format string bug fr 1 November 2024 at 19:27
J0nDuff App - Système  PE32+ Format string bug fr 18 September 2024 at 07:40

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% 25007 5 Lyes 11 25 March 2015
pas_valide ELF x64 - Basic heap overflow 1% 2259 10 sourcePerrier 1 13 February 2023
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow basic 2 5% 17235 10 Lyes 10 10 April 2015
pas_valide PE32 - Stack buffer overflow basic 1% 2535 10 Ech0 8 3 December 2019
pas_valide ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 1 3% 10761 15 Lu33Y 6 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x64 - Stack buffer overflow - basic 3% 8341 20 Arod 7 31 May 2015
pas_valide ELF x86 - Format string bug basic 2 2% 5492 20 Lyes 5 8 April 2015
pas_valide ELF x86 - Race condition 2% 6903 20 Lu33Y 10 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF ARM - Stack buffer overflow - basic 1% 1512 25 pickle 7 9 March 2017
pas_valide ELF MIPS - Stack buffer overflow - No NX 1% 605 25 franb 2 28 September 2018
pas_valide ELF x64 - Double free 1% 1252 25 Esad 2 23 March 2021
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow basic 3 2% 5603 25 Lyes 5 10 April 2015
pas_valide ELF x86 - Use After Free - basic 1% 2226 25 Esad 3 26 May 2019
pas_valide ELF ARM - Stack Spraying 1% 311 30 pickle 4 2 April 2017
pas_valide ELF x64 - Stack buffer overflow - PIE 1% 1347 30 HomardBoy 3 26 March 2021
pas_valide ELF x86 - BSS buffer overflow 2% 4518 30 Lu33Y 7 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow basic 4 1% 3167 30 Lu33Y 5 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow basic 6 1% 3373 30 TiWim 5 10 March 2016
pas_valide ELF x86 - Format String Bug Basic 3 1% 1487 35 Lyes 2 27 May 2015
pas_valide PE32 - Advanced stack buffer overflow 1% 274 35 Ech0 4 3 December 2019
pas_valide ELF ARM - Basic ROP 1% 928 40 pickle 6 11 March 2017
pas_valide ELF MIPS - Basic ROP 1% 202 40 dagger 1 7 October 2018
pas_valide ELF RISC-V - Intro - let’s do the ROP 1% 94 40 nobodyisnobody 1 13 February 2023
pas_valide ELF x64 - Stack buffer overflow - Stack pivot 1% 179 40 spikeroot 0 11 July 2024
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow - C++ vtables 1% 1047 40 sebbb 2 20 July 2015
pas_valide PE32+ Format string bug 1% 117 45 Ech0 1 3 December 2019
pas_valide ELF x64 - Logic bug 1% 262 50 sbrk 3 8 July 2017
pas_valide ELF x86 - Bug Hunting - Several issues 1% 149 50 sbrk 3 19 January 2018
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer and integer overflow 1% 2128 50 Lu33Y 4 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow - ret2dl_resolve 1% 459 50 kikko 4 28 February 2019
pas_valide ELF x86 - Stack buffer overflow basic 5 1% 2022 50 Lu33Y 1 8 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x64 - Stack buffer overflow - advanced 1% 1623 55 Arod 4 5 June 2015
pas_valide ELF MIPS - Format String Glitch 1% 98 60 pickle , martin 1 21 October 2018
pas_valide ELF x64 - Heap Filling 1% 132 60 voydstack 0 27 May 2021
pas_valide ELF x86 - Information leakage with Stack Smashing Protector 1% 995 60 Arod 2 20 May 2015
pas_valide ELF x64 - File Structure Hacking 1% 124 65 nobodyisnobody 0 27 May 2021
pas_valide ELF ARM - Race condition 1% 174 70 pickle 1 3 June 2017
pas_valide ELF x64 - Browser exploit - Intro 1% 115 70 pickle 1 2 November 2018
pas_valide ELF x64 - Buggy VM 1% 89 70 NonStandardModel 0 10 June 2022
pas_valide ELF x64 - Heap Safe-Linking Bypass 1% 101 70 nobodyisnobody 1 22 October 2021
pas_valide ELF x64 - ret2dl_init 1% 64 70 kikko 0 27 May 2021
pas_valide ELF x86 - Out of bounds attack - French Paradox 1% 147 70 sbrk 3 17 September 2017
pas_valide ELF x86 - Remote BSS buffer overflow 1% 770 75 Tosh 1 6 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Remote Format String bug 1% 1014 75 Tosh 2 6 February 2012
pas_valide PE32+ Basic ROP 1% 80 75 Ech0 0 6 December 2019
pas_valide ELF x64 - Remote heap buffer overflow - tcache 1% 328 80 franb 1 5 February 2017
pas_valide ELF x86 - Blind remote format string bug 1% 350 80 Lyes 2 8 June 2015
pas_valide LinKern ARM - vulnerable syscall 1% 186 85 pickle 0 22 March 2017
pas_valide LinKern x86 - Buffer overflow basic 1 1% 593 85 franb 3 16 February 2016
pas_valide ELF x64 - Sigreturn Oriented Programming 1% 315 90 Arod 4 25 June 2015
pas_valide LinKern x86 - Null pointer dereference 1% 561 90 franb 1 16 February 2016
pas_valide ELF x64 - Syscall chaining 1% 35 95 Njörd 1 11 July 2024
pas_valide LinKern x64 - Race condition 1% 384 95 franb 3 16 February 2016
pas_valide ELF ARM - Alphanumeric shellcode 1% 57 100 pickle 2 16 March 2017
pas_valide ELF MIPS - URLEncoded Format String bug 1% 46 100 pickle 0 7 October 2018
pas_valide ELF x64 - Blind SROP 1% 29 100 s1m 0 28 December 2023
pas_valide ELF x64 - Heap Hop 1% 11 100 nobodyisnobody 0 11 July 2024
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 1 1% 863 100 sm0k 3 11 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 2 1% 681 100 sm0k 3 11 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 3 1% 398 100 sm0k 1 11 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 4 1% 471 100 sm0k 2 11 February 2012
pas_valide LinKern MIPSel - Vulnerable ioctl 1% 79 100 pickle 0 23 October 2018
pas_valide LinKern x64 - reentrant code 1% 211 100 franb 2 1 March 2016
pas_valide ELF ARM - Heap format string bug 1% 99 105 franb 1 3 June 2017
pas_valide ELF ARM - Format String bug 1% 108 110 pickle 2 14 March 2017
pas_valide ELF ARM - Use After Free 1% 118 110 pickle 0 22 March 2017
pas_valide ELF x64 - FILE structure hijacking 1% 74 110 voydstack 3 27 May 2021
pas_valide ELF x64 - Heap feng-shui 1% 99 110 laxa 2 4 August 2017
pas_valide ELF x64 - Off-by-one bug 1% 165 110 NeedToLearn 3 19 May 2016
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 5 1% 364 110 sm0k 1 11 February 2012
pas_valide LinKern ARM - Stack Overflow 1% 80 110 pickle 0 24 July 2017
pas_valide LinKern x86 - basic ROP 1% 320 110 franb 3 6 May 2016
pas_valide ELF ARM - Heap Off-by-One 1% 79 115 pickle 1 11 March 2017
pas_valide ELF x64 - Advanced blind format string exploitation 1% 16 115 nobodyisnobody 0 11 July 2024
pas_valide ELF x64 - Remote Heap buffer overflow 1 1% 197 115 Tosh 3 26 June 2015
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 6 1% 344 115 sm0k 3 11 February 2012
pas_valide ELF x86 - Hardened binary 7 1% 289 115 Tosh 3 21 January 2013
pas_valide ELF x86 - Remote stack buffer overflow - Hardened 1% 209 115 franb 1 17 August 2016
pas_valide LinKern x64 - RowHammer 1% 117 115 pickle 2 17 March 2019
pas_valide LinKern x64 - SLUB off-by-one 1% 102 115 Tosh 2 9 May 2019
pas_valide ELF ARM - Heap buffer overflow - Wilderness 1% 48 120 pickle 1 25 March 2017
pas_valide ELF ARM - Heap Overflow 1% 65 120 pickle 1 2 April 2017
pas_valide ELF ARM64 - Heap Underflow 1% 33 120 nobodyisnobody 0 13 February 2023
pas_valide ELF x64 - Seccomp Whitelist 1% 102 120 pickle 0 3 June 2017
pas_valide ELF x86 - Blind ROP 1% 164 120 franb 0 9 October 2016
pas_valide LinKern x64 - Memory exploration 1% 156 120 franb 2 27 July 2016
pas_valide WinKern x64 - Advanced stack buffer overflow - ROP 1% 49 120 __syscall , Synacktiv 1 27 January 2020
pas_valide WinKern x64 - Use After Free 1% 35 120 __syscall , Synacktiv 0 27 January 2020
pas_valide ELF x64 - Remote Heap buffer overflow 2 1% 153 130 Tosh , Fritz 1 1 July 2015
pas_valide ELF x64 - Advanced Heap Exploitation - Heap Leakless & Fortified 1% 63 135 nobodyisnobody 1 27 May 2021
pas_valide ELF x64 - Blind ROP 1% 127 135 franb 1 10 March 2018
pas_valide ELF x64 - Browser exploit - BitString 1% 40 135 pickle 0 15 December 2018
pas_valide ELF ARM64 - Multithreading 1% 24 140 franb 0 13 February 2023