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SEETF 2023 Writeup

This weekend I participated in the SEETF 2023 event. The challenges are in good quality (two needs brute force). And I managed to solve a heap binary compiled with gilibc version 2.35 by abusing the exit handler since malloc_hook and free_hook are removed after 2.34.

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JustCTF 2023 Writeup

Over the weekend, I made headway with several pwn challenges in Just CTF. One particularly instructive challenge required us to exploit the sqlite3 database using the command-line interface. Confronting and pwning a complex, large binary has always been a struggle for me. To learn from these challenges, I compiled several solutions, specifically focusing o..

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