Fuzz testing (more commonly known as "fuzzing") has become a predominate technique for bug hunting because it's easy to deploy and yields results. Academic security research is now flooded with papers on the topic — USENIX Security alone accepted 7 papers in the 2020 Fall submission cycle — many of which propose …
I published a PoC for a new vulnerability in abc2mtex version 1.6.1. This was discovered while testing an analysis framework I'm developing with my peers at Georgia Tech. The vulnerability is due to an unsafe strcpy that allows an attacker to overwrite a return address and achieve arbitrary …
The other day I was playing around with CVE-2013-2028 along with my peer Hong Hu when we came across something odd: CVE-2013-2028 is only exploitable on 64-bit GNU/Linux when ASLR is enabled. After confirming this observation multiple times, we were left very surprised. How could ASLR possibly worsen the …