C/C++ Vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques

Abstract

This thesis focuses on finding, triggering, abusing, explaining, and exploiting common vulnerabilities when writing a C/C++ program, which are related to program security. Someone can take advantage of these vulnerabilities and gain access to the system or read confidential files they are not allowed to. The aim is to eliminate these programming "errors" that trigger a bug (from the defensive side) and learn how to find such flaws to patch them and write more secure code.