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Prerequisites & Requirements

C Programming: Proficiency in pointer arithmetic, string manipulation, and manual memory management (malloc/free).
Linux Fundamentals: Basic CLI navigation and familiarity with the GCC compilation workflow.
Memory Corruption: A conceptual understanding of how buffer overflows occur on the stack and heap.

What will you learn?

Defensive Buffer Handling: Implementing strict bounds checking to prevent off-by-one errors and overflows.
Secure API Migration: Transitioning from unsafe standard library functions ( \n e.g\n ., strcpy) to safer alternatives (strncpy, memcpy).
Dynamic Scaling: Utilizing dynamic memory allocation to safely handle variable-length string expansion.
Null-Termination Compliance: Ensuring consistent string termination in manual buffer operations to prevent data leakage or crashes.

Tools

Compiler: GCC (GNU Compiler Collection).
Editor: Vim/Standard Text Editor.

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Buffer Overflow II

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