how2heap VS coding-interview-university

x86 based binary exploitation: Intel Software Development Manual https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/intel-sdm.html Skim through K&R C, then pick up and read Effective C by Robert Seacord, then pick up any of the books or online resources listed here: https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university. Read OpenBSD's code https://github.com/openbsd/src Python: https://www.python.org/doc/ Pwntools: https://docs.pwntools.com/en/stable/ Aleph One on stack buffer overflows: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/13875/Smashing-The-Stack-For-Fun-And-Profit.html w00w00 on heap overflows: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/13877/w00w00-on-Heap-Overflows.html Pick up Hacking: The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson and give it a good read More heap fun: https://github.com/shellphish/how2heap Return Oriented Programming: https://github.com/spartansecurity/Hack-Nights/blob/master/ROP/Return_Oriented_Exploitation.pdf ret2csu: https://i.blackhat.com/briefings/asia/2018/asia-18-Marco-return-to-csu-a-new-method-to-bypass-the-64-bit-Linux-ASLR-wp.pdf Printf format string vulnerability: https://www.exploit-db.com/docs/english/28476-linux-format-string-exploitation.pdf Binwalk for extracting files, file systems, executable code from images: https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk

You can have a look at something like https://github.com/shellphish/how2heap or https://ctftime.org/writeups

Hi everyone, I just started messing with heap overflow and I've been reading how2heap's house of force technique but something doesn't make sense.

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I stumbled upon a github post called coding interview university and with the shiny object syndrome I have, I kinda want to ditch the roadmaps and start something new like this one in github, or the random dude I found in YouTube, telling his audience that he passed the FAANG interviews. The annoying part of me is that whenever I hear stuff like “I passed the FAANG”, I will immediately try to follow their path because their method works for them or to some other people