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The data, tools, and procedures which, when applied to a specific vulnerability, predictably violate the security design of a system.

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What is the risk of a PDF "infected" with BC.Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2017_3033?

The vulnerability in question seems to be a classical out of bounds read and probably exploitable but it's hard to tell until somebody actually puts in the work to write an exploit. …
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Fuzzing: Quickly find the exact number of bytes

Maybe I am misunderstanding but usually overwriting too much is not a problem. The common approach therefore is to overwrite more than necessary but using a specific pattern. Looking at what ends up …
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Is it a win for an attacker, if they overflow the most recently malloc'd buffer on the heap?

A win for an attacker is a bit of a vague term. Depending on other safeguards you could possibly fill up memory and overflow the stack. Or you could initialize memory which might be used later with c …
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How are viruses made for windows?

You don't have to exploit windows to write a virus for windows. People run all kinds of programs on windows and it's enough to exploit any one of them. …
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Transferring potentially malicious e-mail attachments to air-gapped machine

Clearly, if your service is vulnerable to receiving malicious files by e-mail this needs to be addressed anyway! However, if you explicitly ask for such mails, you remove the legal recourse. Therefor …
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