Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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We develop a helper script to find function pointers we could maybe overwrite with our heap overflow. This is another episode in the sudo series.

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Episode 10:

CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:46 - Research Idea
01:29 - Collecting Data
02:20 - Developing Python Script
03:34 - Finding Potential Function Pointers
04:01 - Verify if pointers are usable
05:07 - Function Pointer Candidate #1
05:58 - Function Pointer Candidate #2
06:47 - Evaluate the Research Methodology
08:00 - What's Next?

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