CUEING UP A CALCULATOR: AN INTRODUCTION TO EXPLOIT DEVELOPMENT ON LINUX

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This blog post focuses on writing a one-click malicious webpage that exploits CVE-2023-43641, an out-of-bounds array access vulnerability in libcue that allows attackers to overwrite the memory of a process. It explains the challenges of bypassing mitigations such as no-execute memory, ASLR, and stack canaries. The post provides insights into ASLR, heap layout, and the development of an exploit targeting libcue in tracker-extract.