Insomni'hack 2016
8 challenges with 13 published community solutions between them. Solution links go to CTFtime’s task page, which aggregates every writeup for a challenge - individual blog posts rot, the aggregator does not.
Full task list on CTFtimeBinary exploitation3
Turn a memory-safety bug in a native binary into control of execution. Usually a stack overflow, a format string, or a heap primitive.
SmartCat 3
3 writeups- shell
- smartcat
- rce
Same technique in picoCTF: Guessing Game 1, x-sixty-what, format string 3
microwave
2 writeups- pwn
- buffer-overflow
- string-format
Same technique in picoCTF: format string 0, Guessing Game 1, x-sixty-what
SmartCat0
1 writeup- shell
- rce
- web
Same technique in picoCTF: Guessing Game 1, x-sixty-what, format string 3
Forensics2
Recover something from a file, a capture, or a disk image - often from a part of it the format says is unused.
PCAPBleeding
2 writeups- network
- crypto
Same technique in picoCTF: FindAndOpen, WebNet0, WebNet1
Smartips
1 writeup- network
Same technique in picoCTF: FindAndOpen, c0rrupt, extensions
Misc2
Everything that fits no other box: esolangs, puzzles, scripting exercises, and the jail escapes that have not yet earned their own category.
Robots
2 writeups- misc
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
smartstove
1 writeup- writeup
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Reverse engineering1
Work out what a compiled program does without its source, then work backwards from the check to the input that passes it.