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Binary exploitation challenges

Turn a memory-safety bug in a native binary into control of execution. Usually a stack overflow, a format string, or a heap primitive.

2,721 in the index. The 200 below are ranked by how many independent published solutions exist - which is the right order for learning, not for difficulty. A challenge with nine writeups gives you nine explanations of the same technique to compare; a harder one nobody documented gives you none.

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