Lab: PwnKit.

Short Description

Goals

• the importance of regularly patching software.
• how a vulnerability can be discovered and rapidly become an easy attack.
• how a unskilled attacker can easily exploit a new vulnerability.
• how a small software error can have huge implications.

This lab will involve some deeper programming and security concepts. it is not the intention of this lab that you understand all of the details of the attack. The purpose of this lab is to give you insight in how a small software error can lead to a vulnerability which an attacker can add to their toolkit.

The Lab

1. Understand the history
2. Exploring the vulnerability
3. Understanding the background
4. The exploit
5. Detecting, mitigating, and fixing the exploit