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Develop working exploits from memory-corruption bugs in native binaries — turning a stack/heap overflow, use-after-free, or type confusion into control flow, an arbitrary read/write, and a shell, and defeating ASLR, NX, stack canaries, PIE, and RELRO along the way. Use when you have a crashing input or a known bug class in an ELF/PE and need a primitive, when building a ROP chain with pwntools and ROPgadget, or when working a CTF pwn challenge or authorized binary exploitation.

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# Exploiting Memory Corruption

Reverse engineering tells you a binary is buggy. Exploitation is the separate
craft of turning that bug into a controlled primitive and then into code
execution, against the mitigations the target actually ships. The work is a
chain of conversions — bug to primitive, primitive to leak, leak to control —
and each link is chosen by what the binary's protections allow, not by rote.

## When to Use

- You have a crash or a known bug class in an ELF/PE and need to assess
  exploitability and build a working exploit
- Constructing a ROP/JOP chain, a ret2libc, or a heap-grooming sequence
- Defeating a specific mitigation set (ASLR, NX/DEP, canary, PIE, RELRO) on a
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