I’ve found lots of examples in C of programs illustrating buffer Overflows, including those of pointer rewrites which has been of great help in understanding how a buffer overflow works and memory safety etc. but I’ve yet to be able to find an example illustrating how such a buffer overflow can rewrite a pointer in such a way that it actually results in code execution?

Is this just not a thing, or is my google-fu rust y? Tried ChatGPT and my local Mistral and they both seem unable to spit out precisely what I’m asking, so maybe I’m wording this question wrong.

If anyone in here knows, could point me in the right direction? Thanks y’all btw love this community 🧡

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    3 months ago

    This resource was 100% exactly what I was looking for. Now gonna setup an env and play with the examples! Thanks so much!